WoRMS taxon details
original description
Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Al-Kandari, Manal; Malyar, Vasily V.; Pankova, Victoria V. (2021). Pseudopolydora (Annelida: Spionidae) from the Arabian Gulf, Kuwait. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 773(1): 120–168., available online at https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/1519 page(s): 143, figures 1C, 5E, 12–16; note: Al-Judailiat, Kuwait, intertidal. Description includes description of planktonic late larvae. [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype MIMB 40853, geounit Kuwaiti part of the Persian Gulf [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Authors: Pseudopolydora kuwaiti "refers to the type locality of the species in Kuwaiti waters". It is not clear how this place name has been Latinized, but perhaps it is a noun genitive. The usual formation used is the adjectival 'kuwaitensis' [details]
Habitat "Adult P. kuwaiti sp. nov. inhabit silty tubes in muddy sand intertidally and in shallow waters and also bore in live mollusc shells, dead corals and shell limestone encrusted by coralline algae" [details]
Type locality Al-Judailiat; Kuwait, 29.377° N, 47.759° E; low intertidal; fine sand [details]
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