Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Wiklund, Helena; Altamira, Iris V.; Glover, Adrian G.; Smith, Craig R.; Baco, Amy R.; Dahlgren, Thomas G. 2012. Systematics and biodiversity of Ophryotrocha (Annelida, Dorvilleidae) with descriptions of six new species from deep-sea whale-fall and wood-fall habitats in the north-east Pacific. Systematics and Biodiversity 10(2): 243-259 page(s): 246 [details]
additional source
Wiklund, Helena; Altamira, Iris V.; Glover, Adrian G.; Smith, Craig R.; Baco, Amy R.; Dahlgren, Thomas G. 2012. Systematics and biodiversity of Ophryotrocha (Annelida, Dorvilleidae) with descriptions of six new species from deep-sea whale-fall and wood-fall habitats in the north-east Pacific. Systematics and Biodiversity 10(2): 243-259 [details]
Holotype BMNH NHMUK2012.13, verbatimGeounit East Pacific, Santa ... [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology named after its flattened shovel-like headform, from the latin batillus, meaning ‘shovel’. [details]
Taxonomy "... most similar to Ophryotrocha scutellus Wiklund et al., 2009 described from a shallow whale-fall in the North East Atlantic. In external morphology they seem to be indistinguishable, but they differ genetically ..." [details]
Type locality Santa Cruz Basin, East Pacific, 33° 30′ 0 N, 119° 22′ 0 W,whale-fall at 1675 m [details]
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