Polychaeta name details
original description
Potts, Frank A. 1928. Zoological Results of the Cambridge expedition to the Suez Canal. Report on the annelids (sedentary polychaetes). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 22(5): 693-705. page(s): 693-694, figs. 210-211 [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment In Pott's two figures Polybranchia foxi appears to be a posterior fragment, perhaps of a capitellid, although it is very large at the stated 80 mm length. Does not match characters of Spionidae. [details]
Type locality Lake Timsah, Suez Canal, Egypt. An inland lake, originally brackish, penetrated by the construction of the Suez Canal, and first connected to the (Mediterranean) sea in 1862. [details]
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