WoRMS taxon details
original description
San Martín, Guillermo; Álvarez-Campos, Patricia; Hutchings, Pat. (2017). The genus Syllis Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida: Syllidae: Syllinae) from Australia (second part): four new species and re-description of twelve previously described species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4237(2): 201–243., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4237.2.1 page(s): 210-212, fig. 5 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype AM W.48533, geounit Darwin Harbour [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Shallow water. [details]
Distribution Australia: Northern Territory (Darwin Harbour). Known only from the type locality. [details]
Etymology The species is named after Dr. João Miguel Matos Nogueira, ''colleague and friend, for his contributions to the knowledge of some families of polychaetes, including the Syllidae'' (San Martín et al., 2017: 212). [details]
Habitat Dead coral substrate in shallow water. [details]
Type locality Old Man's Rock, off Nightcliff, Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia (-12.475°, 130.9033°), shallow water, dead coral substrate. [details]
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