WoRMS taxon details
original description
Nishi, Ejiroh; Abe, Hirokazu; Tanaka, Katsuhiko; Jimi, Naoto; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2022). A new species of the <em>Spirobranchus kraussii</em> complex, <em>S. akitsushima</em> (Annelida, Polychaeta, Serpulidae), from the rocky intertidal zone of Japan. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1100: 1-28., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1100.79569 [details]
Holotype CBM CBM-ZW 1127, geounit Sagami Bay [details]
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Etymology authors: Spirobranchus akitsushima refers to "another name of Japan in the Nara era, ~ 1,300 years ago, as appeared in Kojiki (The Records of Ancient Matters) and Nihon Shoki (The Chronicle of Japan)." [details]
Identification Previously recorded in the literature as Pomatoleios crosslandi non Pixell, 1913, and Pomatoleios kraussii non Baird, 1864, and Spirobranchus kraussii non Baird [details]
Type locality Kamakura, Wakaejima Island, Sagami Bay, Japan , 35.3006 N, 139.5509 E, intertidal [details]
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Japanese |
Yakko-kanzashi gokai |
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