Polychaeta name details
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype AM AMS W5251, verbatimGeounit Bateman's Bay, New S... [details]
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Etymology "The lobe with the frontal antennae give the impression of a Viking helmet, hence the specific name." [details]
Synonymy According to Rainer & Hutchings (1977) "Paxton agrees with Augener (1922) that N. longipes is indeterminable, but [their differing assessment is that] sufficient information is given in Stimpson's description for N vikingensis to be synonymised with N. longipes." [details]
Type locality Bateman's Bay, New South Wales, Australia, approx. 35° 62'S, 150° 11'E, sandflat, December 1960, Isobel Bennett, collector. [details]
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