WoRMS taxon details
original description
Read, Geoffrey B. 2007. Taxonomy of sympatric species of New Zealand Platynereis, with description of three new species additional to P. australis (Schmarda) (Annelida: Polychaeta: Nereididae). Zootaxa 1558: 1-28.
, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/z01558p028f.pdf page(s): 18 [details]
additional source
Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors [request]
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Etymology The epithet karaka is a noun in apposition. The name comes from a Wellington Harbour bay of that name, one of the places the worms were collected, in turn named for the Karaka tree, Corynocarpus laevigatus, an evergreen, berry-bearing tree endemic to New Zealand. [details]
Type locality Island Bay, Wellington New Zealand, -41.3503°, 174.7685°, netted at surface [details]
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