Polychaeta name details
original description
Saint-Joseph, Arthur d'Anthoine de. (1906). Les Annélides Polychètes des côtes de France (Océan et côtes de Provence). <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris.</em> (series 9) 3: 145-258., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34568749 page(s): 223-224, plate V figs. 96-98 [details]
source of synonymy
Pleijel, Fredrik; Mackie, Andrew S.Y. (1993). <i>Nereiphylla pusilla</i> (Polychaeta, Phyllodocidae) rediscovered and redescribed from Sicily. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 43(2-3): 155-160. page(s): 156-159, figs. 1-3, table 1; note: with Nereiphylla pusilla (Claparède, 1870) [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
Campoy, A. (1982). [Part 1.] Fauna de Espana. Fauna de Anelidos Poliquetos de la Peninsula Iberica. Primera parte. <em>Publicaciones de Biologia de la Universidad de Navarra.</em> 7(1): 1-463., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10171/11773 page(s): 143-144; note: as Genetyllis nana [details] Available for editors [request]
Syntype MNHN POLY TYPE 205, geounit Cannes [details]
Syntype MNHN POLY TYPE 987, geounit Cannes [details]
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Depth range Shallow water to 70 m. [details]
Distribution Mediterranean Sea: Cannes (Côte d'Azur, France). [details]
Etymology Not stated in the original description. The specific epithet nana is a Latin noun meaning 'female dwarf', and refers presumably to the small size of the species, originally described as being 3.60-4.38 mm long and 0.48-0.66 mm wide, for 29-34 segments, and referred by Saint-Joseph (1906: 223-224) as being a "petite Phyllodoce" and a "Phyllodoce ci petite". [details]
Habitat Among tubes of Sabellaria alveolata (Linnaeus, 1767), Lithothamnion, and calcareous stones, shallow water to 70 m. [details]
Synonymy After the revision of type material Pleijel & Mackie (1993: 156, 159) suggested the synonymy of Phyllodoce nana Saint-Joseph, 1906 with Nereiphylla pusilla (Claparède, 1870). Their only doubt concerning the synonymy was related to Saint-Joseph's decription of eggs with a diameter of 400 µm in an animal 480 µm wide including cirri, while N. pusilla has eggs with a diameter of 150 µm. [details]
Type locality Cannes, Côte d'Azur, France, Mediterranean Sea. Specimens were collected at three different points: 1) Pointe de la Croisette (gazetteer estimate 43.534°, 07.038°), among tubes of Sabellaria alveolata (Linnaeus, 1767); 2) northern side of Île de Sainte-Margueritte (gazetteer estimate 43.523°, 07.038°), among Lithothamnion; and 3) off La Bocca (gazetteer estimate 43.534°, 06.986°), 70 m deep among calcareous stones. Apparently Saint-Joseph (1906) did not designate a specific type locality, and while Pleijel & Mackie (1993) state to have revised the holotype (no MNHN collection code provided), Solís-Weiss et al. (2004) refer the existence of at least two syntypes (MNHN POLY TYPE 205 and 987). [details]
Type material Deposited at the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (MNHN POLY TYPE 205, 987). [details]
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