WoRMS name details
original description
Hartman, Olga. (1960). Systematic account of some marine invertebrate animals from the deep basins off southern California. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 22(2): 69-216, plates 1-19., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4682240 page(s): 82-83, plate 4 figs. 1-5 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (Deepsea)
Fauchald, K. (1972). Benthic polychaetous annelids from deep water off western Mexico and adjacent areas in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 7: 1-575., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/6207 [details]
source of synonymy
Pettibone, Marian H. (1970). Two new genera of Sigalionidae (Polychaeta). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 83(34): 365-386., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/3407 page(s): 372; note: placed as a synonym of Neoleanira areolata from Japan, based on holotype and California specimens. See taxonomy note. [details]
From editor or global species database
Specimen Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles [details]
Taxonomy Pettibone (1970) writes that "Leanira calcis Hartman from southern California, based on a middle fragment, is referred herein to N. areolata. The characteristic basal spurlike processes of the branchiae and the large ventral ctenidia (accessory processes or ftmbriated organs), medial to the ventral cirri, are also found on specimens of N. areolata from Japan and southern California." [details]
Type locality Pacific Ocean, southern California [details]
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