WoRMS name details
original description
Tebble, Norman. (1959). On a collection of polychaetes from the Mediterranean coast of Israel. <em>The Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel. Section B: Zoology.</em> B8(1): 9-30. page(s): 25-27, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
source of synonymy
Day, John Hemsworth. (1961). The Polychaet [sic] Fauna of South Africa. Part 6. Sedentary species dredged off Cape coasts with a few new records from the shore. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 44(299): 463-560., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1961.tb01623.x [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype NHMUK 1955.10.12.229, geounit Gaza [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 40-135 m. [details]
Distribution Eastern Mediterranean Sea (Gaza Strip, Palestine; Israel). [details]
Etymology Not stated in the original description. The specific epithet assimilis is a Latin adjective meaning 'similar' or 'like', and seems to refer to the superficial similarity of the species with Aricidea antennata Annenkova, 1934 according to Tebble (1959: 27), based mainy on the presence of a long antenna. [details]
Habitat Type of sediment not stated in the original description, at shelf depths. [details]
Type locality Off Gaza, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Eastern Mediterranean (gazetteer estimate 31.431°, 34.126°). [details]From other sources
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
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