Polychaeta taxon details
Namalycastis jaya Magesh, Kvist & Glasby, 2012 AphiaID: 716520
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Namalycastis Hartman, 1959 |
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original description: Magesh, Mathan; Kvist, Sebastian; Glasby, Chris. 2012. Description and phylogeny of Namalycastis jaya sp. n. (Polychaeta, Nereididae, Namanereidinae) from the southwest coast of India. Zookeys 238(0): 31-43, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.238.4014
page(s): 35 [details]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
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Holotype: ZSI-WRS AQJ1 (ZSI/WGRC/IR/IV 2330), [details]
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| Link | | Description at Species-id.net
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| Notes | |
Ecology: In polluted (sulphide rich and odorous) sediments and is especially associated with decaying materials such as bark and retting coir; the salinity at the collection localities ranged from 5–22 psu. [details]
Etymology: Named for Dr. Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State of India. The specific epithet is considered to be a noun in apposition [details]
Type locality: Murukkumpuzha retting zone, Kadinamkulam estuary, Thiruvananthapuram coast, Kerala, India, 8.61596, 76.8191. [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:716520 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Read, G. (2013). Namalycastis jaya Magesh, Kvist & Glasby, 2012. 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=716520 on 2013-05-21 |
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