WoRMS taxon details
Armandia bifida Parapar & Moreira, 2015
862730 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:862730)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Parapar, Julio; Moreira, Juan. (2015). Six new species of the genus <em>Armandia </em>Filippi, 1861 (Polychaeta, Opheliidae) from Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4019(1): 577-603., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.19
page(s): 579-582, figs. 1B, 2A-B, 3, 18B [details] Available for editors
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Holotype AM W.44696, geounit Australia
, Note Lizard Island, off Casuarina Beach, in front...
Holotype AM W.44696, geounit Australia [details]
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Type locality Lizard Island, off Casuarina Beach, in front of Lizard Island Research Station, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia (14º40'46''S, 145º26'49''E), 1.5 m, sand. [details]
Depth range Intertidal (0-1.5 m).
Distribution Australia (Queensland), Great Barrier Reef, Lizard Island: off Casuarina Beach, in front of Lizard Island Research Station.
Etymology The specific epithet bifida, feminine of the Latin adjective bifidus, meaning 'cleft', refers to the bifid shape of the...
Depth range Intertidal (0-1.5 m). [details]
Distribution Australia (Queensland), Great Barrier Reef, Lizard Island: off Casuarina Beach, in front of Lizard Island Research Station.
Distribution Australia (Queensland), Great Barrier Reef, Lizard Island: off Casuarina Beach, in front of Lizard Island Research Station.
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Etymology The specific epithet bifida, feminine of the Latin adjective bifidus, meaning 'cleft', refers to the bifid shape of the...
Etymology The specific epithet bifida, feminine of the Latin adjective bifidus, meaning 'cleft', refers to the bifid shape of the prechaetal lobes of the first three chaetigers. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Armandia bifida Parapar & Moreira, 2015. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=862730 on 2024-04-23
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Parapar, Julio; Moreira, Juan. (2015). Six new species of the genus <em>Armandia </em>Filippi, 1861 (Polychaeta, Opheliidae) from Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4019(1): 577-603., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.19
page(s): 579-582, figs. 1B, 2A-B, 3, 18B [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 579-582, figs. 1B, 2A-B, 3, 18B [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Depth range Intertidal (0-1.5 m). [details]Diagnosis "Parapodia biramous, with prechaetal lobe and ventral lobe; anterior parapodial prechaetal lobe notoriously elongated and symmetrically biramous in chaetigers 1 to 3; following chaetigers lacking dorsal ramus and becoming asymmetrically uniramous towards body end. Anal tube somewhat narrower at base and slightly increasing in width towards distal end, becoming tube-like shape; tube opening slightly laterally compressed, directed posteroventrally; posterior border provided with 10–12 pairs of short paired cirri and an internal short anal cirrus." (Parapar & Moreira, 2015: 580). [details]
Distribution Australia (Queensland), Great Barrier Reef, Lizard Island: off Casuarina Beach, in front of Lizard Island Research Station.
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Etymology The specific epithet bifida, feminine of the Latin adjective bifidus, meaning 'cleft', refers to the bifid shape of the prechaetal lobes of the first three chaetigers. [details]
Habitat Intertidal sand. [details]
Type locality Lizard Island, off Casuarina Beach, in front of Lizard Island Research Station, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia (14º40'46''S, 145º26'49''E), 1.5 m, sand. [details]
