WoRMS taxon details
original description
Erséus, C. (1990). The marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) of the barrier reef ecosystems at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, and other parts of the Caribbean Sea, with descriptions of twenty-seven new species and revision of Heterodrilus, Thalassodrilides and Smithsonidrilus. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 19(3): 243-303., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1990.tb00259.x [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype USNM 127677, geounit Belizean part of the Caribbean Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Subtidal medium to coarse sand, 1 m depth [details]
Distribution Known only from the barrier reef off Belize [details]
Etymology This is, in comparison with the very similar H. flexuosus an ‘uncommon’ (Latin rarus) species in the area investigated: it was only found at two stations [details]
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