WoRMS name details
original description
Hartman, O.; Fauchald, K. (1971). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 6: 1-327., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3458 page(s): 33-34, plate 4 figs. a-b [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Hartman, O.; Fauchald, K. (1971). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 6: 1-327., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3458 [details]
Holotype AHF, geounit North Atlantic Abyssal Province [details]
Paratype AHF, geounit North Atlantic Abyssal Province [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 5018-5023 m. [details]
Depth range Deep-sea context derived from a specimen depth data search [details]
Distribution Atlantic abyssal plain off New England (USA). [details]
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet abyssorum is an inflection (genitive plural) of the Latin noun abyssus, meaning 'abyss', and presumably refers to the habitat where the species was originally found, the abyssal plains of Northwest Atlantic Ocean. [details]
Habitat Abyssal plains. [details]
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, abyssal plain off New England, Atlantic coast of the USA (34º43.0' to 34º40.5'N, and 66º32.8' to 66º35.0'W), between 5018-5023 m. [details]
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