WoRMS taxon details
original description
San Martín, Guillermo; Lucas, Yolanda; Hutchings, Pat. (2023). The genus Syllis Savigny in Lamarck, 1881 [sic for 1818] (Annelida: Syllidae: Syllinae) from Australia (Part 3): new species and redescription of previously described species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5230(3): 251-295., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5230.3.1 page(s): 284, figure 19; note: Anchor reef, near Kurnell, NSW, Australia, 34° 00’ 33” S, 151° 13’ 51” E, holotype and two paratypes [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype AM W.53916, geounit New South Wales [details]
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Etymology Authors: Syllis thylacine is "named after the Tasmanian Wolf (Thylacinus cynocephalus), an extinct carnivorous marsupial, which also had distinctive stripes on its back." The authors do not indicate whether the epithet is a noun or an adjective. It seems to be a non-Latinized noun in apposition. The Thylacinus genus was named from the Greek word meaning pouch, presumably because the species was a pouched mammal. It has nothing to do with having stripes. [details]
Type locality Anchor reef, near Kurnell, Botany Bay entrance, NSW, Australia, -34.0092, 151.2308 (34° 00’ 33” S, 151° 13’ 51” E), 18 m [details]
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