Polychaeta name details
original description
Lastochkin, D.A. (1935). Two new river Aeolosomatidae (Oligochaeta limicola). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 10.</em> 15(90): 636-645., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933508655011 page(s): 637-643, figs. 1-5 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Reynolds, J. W.; Wetzel, M. J. (2018). Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica – A catalogue of names, descriptions and type specimens. Editio Secunda. , available online at https://nomenclatura-oligochaetologica.inhs.illinois.edu/ [details]
new combination reference
Lastochkin, D. A. (1935). New name [<i>Potamodrilus</i>] for the genus <i>Stephensoniella</i>. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (series 10) 16: 488., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933508655076 page(s): 488 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine: rivers Oka, Tesa, Uvod, Volga, and lower stream of Dnieper. [details]
Etymology Not explicitly stated. The specific epithet fluviatilis is a Latin adjective meaning 'of, pertaining to, or produced by rivers, fluvial', and refers to the habitat of the species, the sandy sediments of rivers. [details]
Habitat Freshwater continental rivers, in littoral sands and in coarse sand in the middle of rivers, both submitted to strong currents. [details]
Type locality Not explicitly stated, but the species seems to have been described with base on specimens collected at the Oka River (a tributary of Volga river), near the biological station previously known as Oka Biological Station, Pushchino, central Russia (gazetteer estimate 54.843°, 37.607°). [details]
Type material Not known to exist. [details]
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