WoRMS name details
original description
Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm page(s): 72, three unnumbered text-figs. on bottom of page 72 [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
source of synonymy
Fauvel, P. (1953). Annélides polychètes des Îles Kerguélen, recueillies par M. Patrice Paulian, en 1951. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco.</em> 1026: 1-19. page(s): 5 [details]
source of synonymy
San Martín, G. (2003). Annelida, Polychaeta II: Syllidae. <em>In: Ramos MA et al. (eds) Fauna Iberica, Vol 21, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. CSIC, Madrid.</em> p 1-554. (look up in IMIS) [details]
source of synonymy
Licher, Frank 2000 (1999), Revision der Gattung Typosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (Polychaeta: Syllidae). Morphologie, Taxonomie und Phylogenie. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 551:1-336 [details]
source of synonymy
Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Not stated in the original description. [details]
Distribution South Africa: Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope. Japan, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Indian Ocean, and Red Sea (Fauvel, 1953). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet closterobranchia is composed by the prefix clostero- derived from the Greek word kloster and meaning 'spindle', and the Latin noun branchia, meaning 'gill', and refers to the spindle shape of the dorsal cirri (referred by Schmarda as being branchiae). [details]
Habitat Not stated in the original description. [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed. [details]
Type locality South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Table Bay (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -33.88º, long. 18.45º). [details]Unreviewed
Remark Typosyllis is a subgenus. [details]
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