WoRMS name details
original description
Neal, Lenka; Barnich, Ruth; Wiklund, Helena; Glover, Adrian G. 2012. A new genus and species of Polynoidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Pine Island Bay, Amundsen Sea, Southern Ocean — a region of high taxonomic novelty. Zootaxa *(3542): 80–88, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2012/3542.html page(s): 83 [details]
Holotype BMNH NHM 2012.92, verbatimGeounit Pine Island Bay, Amu... [details]
From editor or global species database
Ecology Austropolaria magnicirrata n. gen. n. sp. is only known from Pine Island Bay in Amundsen Sea, where its distribution is limited to deeper sites (1000 m and 1500 m depth) and was not found at shallower 500 m stations. [details]
Etymology magnicirrata (Latin for large cirrus) refers to the large dorsal cirri with prominent cirrophores. [details]
Type locality Pine Island Bay, Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, 74.35865 S, 104.73444 W, -74.3586 , -104.7344 [details]
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