Polychaeta name details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1965). Zur Kenntnis des Sublitorals der chilenischen Küste unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. II Die Polychaeten des Sublitorals. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 62 Supplement: 59-305. page(s): 127-129, figs. 93-95 [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype ZMH 14539, geounit Isla Mocha [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 26 m. [details]
Distribution Southeast Pacific Ocean: Chile (Isla Mocha). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet parahebes is composed by the Greek prefix para-, meaning 'beside' or 'near', and the word hebes, specific epithet of the species Paedophylax hebes Webster & Benedict, 1884 and Latin adjective meaning 'blunt', 'dull' or 'not sharp or pointed', and refers to the similarity between the two species in what concerns the shape of the prostomium, the shape of composite chaetae, and the absence of dorsal cirri on the second chaetiger. [details]
Habitat Black fine sand with some detritus, at 26 m. [details]
Type locality Isla Mocha, Chile, Southeast Pacific Ocean, Stn. 75 (-38.265º, -73.55º), 26 m, black fine sand with some detritus. [details]
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