WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Gravier, Charles. (1899). Contribution à l'étude des Annélides Polychètes de la Mer Rouge. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 5: 234-244., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42892523 page(s): 242-244, figs. 16-19 [details] 
Otheradditional source
Yousefi, Shetav; Rahimian, Hasan; Nabavi, Seid Mohammad Bagher; Glasby, Christopher. (2011). Nereididae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from intertidal habitats in the Gulf of Oman, Iran. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3013: 48-64., available online at http://mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/11850 page(s): 54-57, figs. 2B, 5A-F, table 3 [details] Available for editors [request]
Syntype MNHN POLY TYPE 533-538, geounit Obok [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Not stated in the original description. Intertidal. [details]
Distribution Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden (Djibouti): Gulf of Oman (Iran); Persian Gulf. [details]
Etymology Not stated in the original description. The specific epithet heterodonta is composed by the Ancient Greek words heteros, meaning 'different', and donti, meaning 'tooth', and refers presumably to the coexistence of paragnaths with different shapes on the proboscis, namely conical and transversal. [details]
Habitat Not stated in the original description. Rocky, sandy and coral shores, and under stones on sandy shores. [details]
Type locality Obock, Djibouti, Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean (gazetteer estimate 11.963°, 43.302°). [details]
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