WoRMS name details
original description
Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas.</em> 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162 page(s): 78-79 [no figures] [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
Mackie, Andrew S. Y. 1987. A review of species currently assigned to the genus Leitoscoloplos Day, 1977 (Polychaeta: Orbiniidae), with descriptions of species newly referred to Scoloplos Blainville, 1828. Sarsia, 72: 1-28. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 14-15, fig. 15 [details]
Holotype LACM AHF Poly 0688, geounit Aransas Bay [details]
Nontype LACM AHF N3124, geounit Biloxi [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal. [details]
Distribution Northern Gulf of Mexico: USA (Mississipi; Texas). [details]
Etymology Not stated in the original description. The specific epithet foliosus is a Latin adjective meaning 'leafy' or 'full of leaves', and refers presumably to the foliaceous abdominal notopodial postchaetal lamellae, which becomes very long posteriorly, attaining a length up to 1.5 times the length of the branchiae. [details]
Habitat Sand beaches, amongst decaying vegetation, and in shore sandy mud flats. [details]
Type locality Turtle Bayou, Aransas Bay, Texas, USA, Gulf of Mexico (gazetteer estimate 27.976°, -97.071°). [details]
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