Polychaeta name details
original description
Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1919. Pacific coast Polychaeta collected by Alexander Agassiz. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 63(6): 251-270., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30574684 page(s): 260-261, plate 2 fig. 10, plate 3 fig. 1 [details]
additional source
Hartman, Olga. (1938). Annotated list of the types of polychaetous annelids in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 85(1): 3-31, plates 1-3., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4537955 page(s): 13 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Orbiniidae Hartman, 1942. pages 1-26. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara page(s): 18; note: with Naineris dendritica (Kinberg, 1867), after examination of holotype [details]
Holotype MCZ 2136, geounit Mendocino [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Not stated, probably intertidal to shallow water. [details]
Distribution Eastern Pacific Ocean: Mendocino (northern California, USA). [details]
Etymology Not explicitly stated by the author. The specific epithet nannobranchia is composed by the prefix of Greek origin nanno-, meaning 'small' or 'smallest', and the Latin noun branchia, meaning 'gills', and refers to the small size of the branchiae of the species: "This form differs from the others known from the coast of California [...] in the marked reduction of the branchiae in the posterior region" (Chamberlin, 1919: 260). [details]
Habitat Not stated, probably shoreline. [details]
Type locality Mendocino, northern California, USA, Pacific Ocean (gazetteer estimate 39.3063° -123.8151°). [details]
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