WoRMS taxon details
original description
San Martín, Guillermo; Álvarez-Campos, Patricia; Hutchings, Pat. (2017). The genus Syllis Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida: Syllidae: Syllinae) from Australia (second part): four new species and re-description of twelve previously described species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4237(2): 201–243., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4237.2.1 page(s): 205-208, figs. 2-3 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype AM W.48526, geounit Kimberley [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Shallow water. [details]
Distribution Australia: Western Australia (Shirley Island, Kimberley). Known only from the type locality. [details]
Etymology The species is named in after Dr. Markus Böggemann, Osnabrück University, Germany, ''for his great contribution to the knowledge of some families of polychaetes, among which are the Syllidae'' (San Martín et al, 2017: 208). [details]
Habitat Dead coral substrate in shallow water. [details]
Type locality Shirley Island, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia (-16.2833°, 123.4333°), shallow water, dead coral substrate. [details]
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