Polychaeta taxon details
original description
San Martín G. and Hutchings P.A.. 2006. Eusyllinae (Polychaeta, Syllidae) from Australia with the description of a new genus and fifteen new species. Records of the Australian Museum. 58. 257-370., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.58.2006.1466 page(s): 297-298, figs. 23A-B, 32A-C, 33A-F, 34A-E [details]
additional source
Aguado, María Teresa; Murray, Anna; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2015). Syllidae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4019(1): 35-60., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.5 page(s): 39, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype AM W28387, geounit Australia [details]
Nontype AM W.41674, geounit Lizard Island (Queensland) [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal to 22 m. [details]
Distribution Australia: Queensland (Lizard Island); Western Australia. [details]
Etymology The species epithet derives from two aboriginal words, marombi, meaning shield, and booral, meaning big, or large, in reference to the large occipital flap present. [details]
Habitat On sand, coral rubble, dead corals like Acropora and Montipora spp., and sponges, at intertidal to shallow subtidal depths. [details]
Type locality Australia, Western Australia, off jetty adjacent to Fisheries Hut, Beacon Island. [details]
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