Polychaeta name details
From editor or global species database
Distribution South Africa: Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope. [details]
Editor's comment The species seems to be a member of the family Hesionidae Grube, 1850. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet clavigera, is a Latin adjective, inflection of claviger, formed by clava ('club' or 'cudgel') and gero ('carry' or 'bear'), meaning 'club-bearing', and makes reference to the club-shaped dorsal cirri that the species bears. [details]
Habitat On stones. [details]
Identification According to Nygren (2004: 199), "there is nothing in the description that connects M. clavigera to Autolytinae. Ventral cirri is present, and chaetal types are not found in Autolytinae." [details]
Type locality South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Table Bay (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -33.88º, long. 18.45º). [details]
Type material Not found by Nygren (2004), probably lost. [details]
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