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Polychaeta taxon details

Eusyllis grandmariae Brusa, Aguado, San Martin & Rouse, 2013 
AphiaID: 714983

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Syllidae (Family) > Eusyllinae (Subfamily) > Eusyllis (Genus)
Status accepted
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Rank Species
Parent Eusyllis Malmgren, 1867
Source  original description: Brusa, Vivian S.; Aguado, M. Theresa; San Martin, Guillermo; Rouse, Greg W. 2013. Revision of the genus Eusyllis Malmgren, 1867 (Annelida: Phyllodocida: Syllidae: Eusyllinae), with the description of a new species from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 3599(1): 37-50, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3599.1.3
page(s): 42 [details]


Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution 
Specimen  Holotype: SIO SIO-BIC A3234 [details]
Notes  Diagnosis: Unique in having compound chaetae with elongated blades, short spines on margin and minute, spine-like proximal teeth. Only E. longicirrata Imajima, 1966, from Japan, has similar chaetae. However, it has chaetae about twice longer, much longer dorsal cirri, two to five times longer than body width, digitiform ventral cirri (triangular in the new species), and palps totally separated  [details]

Etymology: Named for Maria Brusa, the first author’s late grandmother. [details]

Spelling: Publication misspells the species epithet as 'grandmarie' in abstract and Table 1. [details]

Type locality: Monterey Submarine Canyon, California, U.S.A. on whale carcass, 36.802 N, 121.994 W [not 38.802 N 122.994ºW as in Brusa et al] [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:714983
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  Citation: Read, G. (2013). Eusyllis grandmariae Brusa, Aguado, San Martin & Rouse, 2013. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). World Polychaeta database at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta../aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714983 on 2013-05-20