WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Quiroga, E.; Sellanes, J. (2009). Two new polychaete species living in the mantle cavity of <em>Calyptogena gallardoi</em> (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae) at a methane seep site off central Chile (~36°S). <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 73(2): 399-407., available online at http://www.icm.csic.es/scimar/index.php/secId/6/IdArt/3801/ page(s): 404 [details]
Othercontext source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Holotype MNHNC MNHNCL-AN2044, verbatimGeounit off Concepción, Chil... [details]
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Etymology Named in honour of Dr. Dieter Gerdes (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany) who has studied marine benthic communities of the South American and Antarctic margins extensively. [details]
Habitat In mantle cavity of bivalve Calyptogena gallardoi, which lives in sticky dark grey sediments smelling of sulphide [details]
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