Holotype collected ashore, washed up after a gale. [details]
Original diagnosis by Willey (1902: 281): "Fasciculi setarum capillarium a segmento tertio incipientes in segmentis ... [details]
Antarctic Ocean: Cape Adare (Victoria Land, Antarctica). [details]
Southeast Atlantic Ocean: off Cape Province (South Africa). [details]
Not explicitly stated, but the specific epithet antarctica refers clearly to the type locality of the species, ... [details]
Willey (1902:263) stated that Polynoidae comprised three subfamilies, the Iphionina Savigny, Lepidonotina [new ... [details]
Cape Adare, Victoria Land, Antarctica, Antarctic Ocean (gazetteer estimate using Carsten Borchegrevink's "Southern ... [details]