WoRMS taxon details
original description
Zhang, Jinghuai; Zhang, Yanjie; Osborn, Karen; Qiu, Jian-Wen. (2017). Description of a new species of Eulepethus (Annelida, Eulepethidae) from the northern South China Sea, and comments on the phylogeny of the family. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4226(4): 581–593., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4226.4.8 page(s): 584 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype MBMCAS MBM 285075, geounit Hong Kong [details]
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Diagnosis Body elongate, complete specimens with 39–70 segments. Anterior part with 12 pairs of elytrae on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 24, each pair overlapping dorsally, with lateral margins notched or having 1–2 spade-shaped processes. A blunt acicular chaeta on neuropodia of segment 3. Dorsal cirri on segments 3 and 6. Branchiae 12 pairs, on segments 8, 10, alternate segments to 22, 23, 25, 26, 27. Posterior segments beginning on segment 28 each with a pair of elytrae non-overlapping dorsally. [details]
Distribution Currently only Daya Bay and Shantou in the northern South China Sea in depths 10–30 m. Some of the specimens identified as E. hamifer for specimens collected from locations off Vietnam and mainland China could be E. nanhanensis sp. nov. [details]
Etymology authors: "nanhaiensis is derived from nai hai, latinized Chinese characters for the south sea, which refers to the type locality in the northern South China Sea." [details]
Type locality Daya Bay, near Hong Kong, China, northern S China Sea, 22.5285 N, 114.6444 E, 19 m [details]
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