Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1982). Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-antiborealen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Cervantes im Norden und Cape Naturaliste im Süden). Teil 8. IN: Gesa Hartmann-Schröder and Gerd Hartmann. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 79: 51-118. page(s): 60, figs. 18-21 [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype ZMH P-16755, geounit Australia [details]
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Depth range Eulittoral. [details]
Distribution Australia: Western Australia (Guilderton). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet macropectinans, formed by the Latin words macro, meaning 'large', and pectinans, a form of pecten, meaning 'comb', refers to the large spines in the cutting edge of the blades of the composed chaetae, resembling a comb. [details]
Habitat Among algae on rocks, at shallow water. [details]
Type locality Australia, Western Australia, Guilderton, on rocks next to stones of jetty (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -31.35º, long. 115.496º). [details]
Type material Type material deposited at the Zoologischs Museum für Hamburg, Germany (Holotype ZMH P-16755). [details]
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