Polychaeta taxon details
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Depth range Shallow water. [details]
Distribution Western Atlantic Ocean: Gulf of Mexico; Caribbean Sea. [details]
Etymology Not explicitly stated in the original description. The specific epithet haitiensis refers to the type locality of the species, Haiti. [details]
Habitat Amongst sponges, and under stones, in shallow water reefs and other substrates. [details]
Holotype Deposited at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (AMNH 3554). [details]
Status Hartman (1956; 1959) followed by Holthe (1986b) indicated that Thelepus haitiensis belongs to T. setosus (de Quatrefages, 1865). Nevertheless, after checking topotype specimens of T. setosus (AMNH 657 (3) Saint Vaast-la-Hogue, France, IV.1913). Londoño-Mesa (2009) consider these two species different, because of the greater number of branchial filaments in T. haitiensis. See more details in the article. [details]
Type locality Lamentin Reefs, near shore, 5.6 km West of Bizoton reefs, southern region of Bay of Port-au-Prince, Gulf of Gonâve, Haiti, Caribbean Sea (gazetteer estimate 18.548°, -72.432°; details in Beebe (1928) and Londoño-Mesa (2009)). [details]
Type material Holotype AMNH 3554 (1) Lamentin Reefs, near shore, 5.6km West of Bizoton reefs, Haiti, Sta [details]Unreviewed
Taxonomy Species uncertain [details]
Taxonomy Questionably synonym of species listed [details]
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