Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Haswell, W.A. (1920). The Exogoneae. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 34: 217-245, plates 17-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34986240 page(s): 218-219, plate 17 figs. 1-6 [details]
original description
(of Exogone spinisetosa Hartmann-Schröder, 1981) Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1981). Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Kusten unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Teil 6. Die Polychaeten der tropisch-subtropischen Westkuste Australiens (zwischen Exmouth im Norden und Cervantes im Suden). <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 78: 19-96. page(s): 39-40, figs. 77-79 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
San Martín, Guillermo; Lucas, Yolanda; Westheide, Wilfried. (2021). The hidden worms on the beach: interstitial Syllidae (Annelida) from the Indo-Pacific. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 134(1): 149-195., available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324x-134.1.149 page(s): 155; note: Records for Otago, New Zealand, from 7 m in sand [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal to shallow water. [details]
Distribution Australia: Port Jackson, Port Stephens, and Broken Bay (New South Wales). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet fustifera, composed by the Latin noun fustis, meaning 'club' or 'knobbed stick', and the Latin suffix -fer, meaning 'to bear' or 'to carry', refers to the shape of the antennae, which "are very slender except towards the end, where there is a marked dilation" (Haswell, 1920: 218). [details]
Habitat Among intertidal to shallow water algae and sponges. [details]
Type locality Australia, New South Wales, Port Jackson (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -33.86º, long. 151.24º). [details]
| |