WoRMS taxon details
original description
Jones, Meredith L. (1961). Two new polychaetes of the families Pilargidae and Capitellidae from the Gulf of Mexico. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 2049: 1-18., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3490 page(s): 10-17, figs. 15-26 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
Holotype AMNH 3603, geounit Panama City [details]
Paratype AMNH 3604, geounit Panama City [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 30.5 m. [details]
Distribution Gulf of Mexico, off Panama City (Bay County, Florida, USA). [details]
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet platyproctus is composed by the combining forms of Greek origin platy-, meaning 'flat', and -proctus, meaning 'anus', and presumably refers to the shape of the pygidium of the species, described as being "a flattened plaque [...], slightly oblique to a transverse plane" (Jones, 1961: 12). [details]
Habitat In an empty Strombus sp. shell, and inhabiting the vaccated tube of a sabellariid polychaete, at shelf depths. [details]
Type locality Gulf of Mexico, USA, Florida, 12 miles off Panama City, Bay County (30º00'34''N, 85º54'12''W), at 100 feet (= 30.5 m), in an empty Strombus sp. shell, and inhabiting the vaccated tube of a sabellariid polychaete. [details]
Type material Holotype (AMNH 3603) and paratypes (AMNH 3604) deposited at the American Museum of Natural History, New York (USA). [details]
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