Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Pleijel, F.; Rouse, G.; Nygren, A. (2009). Five colour morphs and three new species of <i>Gyptis</i> (Hesionidae, Annelida) under a jetty in Edithburgh, South Australia. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 38(1): 89-99., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00356.x page(s): 98 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype SAMA SAM E3688, verbatimGeounit Edithburgh jetty, Gu... [details]
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Description Identical to G. simpsonorum except for pigmentation. Occurs in three different colour patterns, ‘form C’ with about four dark transverse stripes dorsally on each segment (Fig. 1C), ‘form D’ with a dark, thin longitudinal band mid-dorsally (Fig. 1D), and ‘form E’ with the whole dorsum (excluding parapodia) covered by black pigment (Fig. 1E). [details]
Etymology named for the multiple colour morphs. [details]
Holotype Holotype divided between SIO (USA) and SAM (Australia), with anterior part preserved in formalin (SAM E3688), posterior part in 95% ethanol (SIO-BIC A1050, ‘spm 1’), [details]
Type locality Edithburgh jetty, Gulf St. Vincent, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, 35°05.172?S, 137°44.825?E (-35.0862, 137.7471), 3–5 m. [details]
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