Deep-Sea name details
original description
Hartman, O.; Fauchald, K. (1971). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 6: 1-327., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3458 page(s): 54-55, plate 8 figs. f-i [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype AHF Poly 888, geounit North West Atlantic [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Continental shelf and shallow to deep slope depths, 97-2900 m. [details]
Distribution Atlantic Ocean: continental slope off New England (USA); continental shelves of Guiana and Brazil (off Pernambuco). [details]
Editor's comment edited to extend the unaccept reason text [GBR Jun 2015] [details]
Etymology The specific epithet anoculata refers to the absence of eyes in the species. [details]
Habitat Continental shelf and slope. Further information lacking. [details]
Homonymy With the move of the species to the genus Typosyllis performed by Licher (1999) the species became a secondary homonym of Typosyllis anoculata Hartmann-Schröder, 1962. For this reason Licher (1999) created the new name Typosyllis parateinopterona to designate the species. [details]
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, northwestern section, deep slope off New England, Atlantic coast of the USA (39º43.6'N, 70º37.4'W). [details]
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