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WoRMS name detailsParaboccardia acus Rainer, 1973
330263 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:330263)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
Paraboccardia Rainer, 1973 accepted as Boccardia Carazzi, 1893
marine,
recent only
Rainer, S.F. (1973). <i>Polydora</i> and related genera (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Otago waters. <em>Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 3(4): 545-564., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.1973.10421857
page(s): 550-553, fig. 3 [details] Available for editors  [request]
Holotype OU A72:7A, geounit Otago Peninsula
Holotype OU A72:7A, geounit Otago Peninsula [details] From editor or global species database
Type locality South Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, South Island, Otago Peninsula, Papanui Beach (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -45.865º, long. 170.742º), lower midlittoral, in shells of live Perna canaliculus (Gmelin, 1791) . [details]
Depth range Lower midlittoral.
Depth range Lower midlittoral. [details] Distribution South Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, South Island: Otago region (Papanui Beach and Otago Harbour).
Distribution South Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, South Island: Otago region (Papanui Beach and Otago Harbour). [details] Etymology The specific epithet acus is a Latin noun meaning 'needle' or 'pin', and presumably refers to the ''Enlarged acicular...
Etymology The specific epithet acus is a Latin noun meaning 'needle' or 'pin', and presumably refers to the ''Enlarged acicular [noto] setae present in about last 13 setigers'' (Rainer, 1973: 550), which are pictured as being needle-shaped (op. cit., fig. 3F). As Boccardia, and logically Paraboccardia also, is feminine, 'acus' should have had a feminine ending if an adjective, therefore we should probably treat 'acus' as an unchanging noun in apposition. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Paraboccardia acus Rainer, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=330263 on 2025-05-07
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
Rainer, S.F. (1973). <i>Polydora</i> and related genera (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Otago waters. <em>Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 3(4): 545-564., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.1973.10421857
page(s): 550-553, fig. 3 [details] Available for editors [request]new combination reference Read, Geoffrey B. (1975). Systematics and biology of polydorid species (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Wellington Harbour. <em>Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 5(4): 395-419., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.1975.10419361 page(s): 406-407, fig. 5a; note: as Boccardia (Paraboccardia) acus [details] Available for editors [request]new combination reference Blake, James A. (1983). Polychaetes of the family Spionidae from South America, Antarctica and adjacent seas and islands. In: Biology of the Antarctic Seas XIV. <em>Antarctic Research Series.</em> 39(3): 205-287., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/AR039p0205/summary page(s): 244, fig. 21; note: as Boccardia acus [details] Available for editors [request] Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype OU A72:7A, geounit Otago Peninsula [details]
Paratype OU A72: 7B, 7C, 7D, 7E, geounit Otago Peninsula [details]
From editor or global species database
Association Borer in shells of live Perna canaliculus (Gmelin, 1791) and Austrovenus stutchburyi (W. Wood, 1828) (recorded as Chione stutchburyi). [details]Depth range Lower midlittoral. [details] Distribution South Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, South Island: Otago region (Papanui Beach and Otago Harbour). [details] Etymology The specific epithet acus is a Latin noun meaning 'needle' or 'pin', and presumably refers to the ''Enlarged acicular [noto] setae present in about last 13 setigers'' (Rainer, 1973: 550), which are pictured as being needle-shaped (op. cit., fig. 3F). As Boccardia, and logically Paraboccardia also, is feminine, 'acus' should have had a feminine ending if an adjective, therefore we should probably treat 'acus' as an unchanging noun in apposition. [details] Habitat In shells of live Perna canaliculus (Gmelin, 1791) and Austrovenus stutchburyi (W. Wood, 1828) (recorded as Chione stutchburyi), from midlittoral sand. [details] Type locality South Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, South Island, Otago Peninsula, Papanui Beach (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -45.865º, long. 170.742º), lower midlittoral, in shells of live Perna canaliculus (Gmelin, 1791) . [details] |
