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Polychaeta taxon details

Ramisyllis multicaudata Glasby, Schroeder & Aguado, 2012 
AphiaID: 596208

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Syllidae (Family) > Syllinae (Subfamily) > Ramisyllis (Genus)
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Typetaxon of  Ramisyllis Glasby, Schroeder & Aguado, 2012
Parent Ramisyllis Glasby, Schroeder & Aguado, 2012
Source  original description: Glasby, Christopher J.; Schroeder, Paul C.; Aguado, Maria Teresa. 2012. Branching out: a remarkable new branching syllid (Annelida) living in a Petrosia sponge (Porifera: Demospongiae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164(3): 481-497. , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00800.x
page(s): 483 [details]


Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution type locality: Darwin Harbour (from specimen)

Specimen  Holotype: NTM W23745, locality Darwin Harbour (Channel Island, Darwin Harbour, Australia, about 200 m north of bridge, 12° 33.2' S, 130° 52.4' E (-12.553333° 130.873333°)) [details]
Links The worm that looks like a tree - New Scientist Zoologger
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
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Notes  Distribution: Coastal waters of the ‘Top End’ of northern Australia. [details]

Etymology: Name derived from the Latin, multus for many, and caudata, feminine, for tailed. [details]

Habitat: An endosymbiont of Petrosia sp. sponges (purple and white forms), in depth range from low water spring tide to at least 20 m. [details]

Type locality: Channel Island, Darwin Harbour, Australia, about 200 m north of bridge, 12° 33.2' S, 130° 52.4' E (-12.553333° 130.873333°). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:596208
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2012-03-03 04:22:02Z  created  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G. (2013). Ramisyllis multicaudata Glasby, Schroeder & Aguado, 2012. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596208 on 2013-05-21