WoRMS taxon details
original description
Parapar, Julio; Moreira, Juan. (2015). Six new species of the genus <em>Armandia </em>Filippi, 1861 (Polychaeta, Opheliidae) from Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4019(1): 577-603., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.19 page(s): 585, figs. 1C, 2D, 6, 18B [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype AM W.44115, geounit Australia [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 9 m. [details]
Diagnosis "Parapodia biramous, with prechaetal lobe and ventral lobe; prechaetal lobe asymmetrical, with short ventrally displaced tip; ventral lobe wide, becoming longer than prechaetal lobe in posterior chaetigers. Branchiae present from chaetiger 2 to last body chaetiger, thin, much longer than chaetae, conspicuously twisted after fixation and not decreasing in length in posterior chaetigers. Anal tube funnel-like; narrow at base, increasing in width at distal end and opening directed posterio-dorsally, appearing obliquely truncate in lateral view. Posterior border with numerous (~25) pairs of small paired anal cirri; paired basal cirri and internal unpaired cirrus not observed." (Parapar & Moreira, 2015: 585). [details]
Distribution Australia (Queensland), Great Barrier Reef, south east Lizard Island: reef of north west side of North Direction Island. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet filibranchia is composed by the Latin prefix fil-, meaning 'thread' or 'filament', and the Ancient Greek word branchia, meaning 'gills', and refers to the long and thin parapodial branchiae of the species. [details]
Habitat Sublittoral sand at 9 m depth. [details]
Type locality South east of Lizard Island, reef on north west side of North Direction Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia (14º44'36''S, 145º30'20''E), 9 m, sand. [details]
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