Deep-Sea taxon details
original description
Blake, James A. (2016). Kirkegaardia (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae), new name for Monticellina Laubier, preoccupied in the Rhabdocoela, together with new records and descriptions of eight previously known and sixteen new species from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4166(1): 1-93., available online at http://mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/zootaxa.4166.1 page(s): 67-70, figs. 34-36, table 1 [pages 77, 81], table 2 [page 85] [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Blake, James A. (2016). Kirkegaardia (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae), new name for Monticellina Laubier, preoccupied in the Rhabdocoela, together with new records and descriptions of eight previously known and sixteen new species from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4166(1): 1-93., available online at http://mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/zootaxa.4166.1 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype LACM LACM-AHF Poly 8939, geounit Antarctic Peninsula [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology author: "Kirkegaardia olgahartmanae n. sp. is the third species described in a group of closely related deep-water cirratulids that occupy spiral burrows within mud balls that can be observed on the surface. Mr. Heiko Sahling, who provided specimens of K. olgahartmanae n. sp. from the Bransfield Strait for examination, said in correspondence that: “The mudballs were observed with a video-sled in a very broad area; porewater and chlorophyll profiles indicate a strong bioturbation caused by these tiny creatures.” [details]
Depth range Deep-sea context derived from a specimen depth data search [details]
Etymology author: "named after Dr. Olga Hartman, polychaete systematist, whose monographs on Antarctic polychaetes inspired this author; Dr. Hartman also identified the first specimens of this species as Tharyxsp. in Hartman (1967)" [details]
Type locality Greenpeace Trough, Larsen Ice Shelf A Area, East coast of Antarctic Peninsula, -64.8202°, -60.5339°, 668 m [details]
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