WoRMS taxon details
original description
Erséus, C. (1997). Marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) from the Montebello and Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, with descriptions of twenty-three new species. <em>In: F.E. Wells (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, Western Australian Museum, Perth.</em> pp. 389-458. [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype WAM 153-96, verbatimGeounit Saline pond, Long Is... [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Barely subtidal sand [details]
Distribution Known only from Houtman Aborlhos Islands, Western Australia. [details]
Etymology Named vermithecatus for its vermiform spermatheca [details]
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