WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Polydora abranchiata Hartman, 1953) Hartman, Olga. (1953). Non-pelagic Polychaeta of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901‒1903. <em>Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901‒1903 under the direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld.</em> 4(11): 1-83., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/62372341 page(s): 44, fig. 13c-d [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Paterson, I.G.; Gibson, G.D. (2003). A new species of <i>Amphipolydora</i> (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from New Zealand. <em>New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research.</em> 37(4): 733-740., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288330.2003.9517203 page(s): 734, table 1 [details]
redescription
Blake, James A. (1983). Polychaetes of the family Spionidae from South America, Antarctica and adjacent seas and islands. In: Biology of the Antarctic Seas XIV. <em>Antarctic Research Series.</em> 39(3): 205-287., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/AR039p0205/summary page(s): 253, fig. 24 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Habitat According to Paterson & Gibson (2003: 739), ''Although A. abranchiata is described as being collected from a sand/gravel substrate, one of the A. abranchiata syntypes was found to be fouled with sponge macrosclere spicules (oxea) suggesting that sponges were associated with that collection.''
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Reproduction ''The presence of enlarged moniliform body segments and the presence of regenerating fragments suggest that architomic asexual reproduction occurs in this species'' (Blake, 1983: 253). [details]
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