Polychaeta taxon details
original description
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): 58, figs. 134-136 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Hutchings, Patricia A. (1997). The Terebellidae (Polychaeta) of Northern Australia with a key to all the described species of the region. pages 133-161, 7 figures. IN: Hanley, J.R.; Caswell, G.; Megirian, D.; Larson, H.K. (Eds.). <em>Proceedings of the Sixth International Biological Workshop. The marine flora and fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia.</em> Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory and the Australian Marine Sciences Association. Darwin, Australia. page(s): 155 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Hutchings, Patricia A.; Glasby, Christopher J. (1988). The Amphitritinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 40(1): 1-60., available online at http://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.40.1988.150 page(s): 41-42, fig. 16a [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype ZMH P-16500, geounit Cervantes [details]
Nontype AM W18122, geounit Pallarenda [details]
Nontype AM W19175, W19176, W19177, geounit Calliope River [details]
Nontype AM W200966, geounit Arafura Sea [details]
Nontype AM W201191, geounit North West Shelf [details]
Nontype AM W201192, geounit North West Shelf [details]
Nontype AM W201200, geounit North West Shelf [details]
Nontype AM W201201, geounit North West Shelf [details]
Nontype AM W201202, geounit North West Shelf [details]
Nontype AM W23-84, geounit Mermaid [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal (Australia); also at 115 m (Arafura Sea). [details]
Distribution Australia: Western Australia (north west); Northern Territory (Arafura Sea; Gove); Queensland (Townsville; Calliope River, Gladstone). [details]
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet curtiuncata is a New Latin adjective composed by the Latin adjectives curti, form of curtus and meaning 'short' or 'shortened', and uncata, meaning 'hooked, bent, or curved inwards', and refers presumably to the short shaft of the uncini of the first neuropodia: "Haken der 1. Neuropodien nur mit sehr kurzem, leicht zu übersehenden Schaft" (Hartmann-Schröder, 1981: 58). [details]
Habitat Intertidal seagrasses with fine sand and mud flats in front of mangroves, amongst coral rubble, and also at shelf depths. [details]
Type locality Cervantes, beach in front of town, Western Australia, Australia (gazetteer estimate -30.505°, long. 115.056°). [details]
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