Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Blake, J.A. 2000. Family Scalibregmatidae Malmgren, 1867. pages 129-144. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul Valentich. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 7 - The Annelida Part 4. Polychaeta: Fabelligeridae to Sternaspidae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara page(s): 133-135, fig. 6.1 [details]
taxonomy source
Blake, James A. (2025). New species and records of Scalibregmatidae (Annelida) from the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean, and adjacent seas. <em>Megataxa.</em> 16(1): 1–232., available online at https://mapress.com/mt/article/view/megataxa.16.1.1 page(s): 162, no figures; note:
Depth range restricted to continental shelf depths off central California, 90–113 m, with the deep-water specimens previously included now referred to S. hadrostomium Blake, 2025 (California, bathya...
Depth range restricted to continental shelf depths off central California, 90–113 m, with the deep-water specimens previously included now referred to S. hadrostomium Blake, 2025 (California, bathyal to abyssal depths).
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additional source
Blake, James A. (2015). New species of Scalibregmatidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the East Antarctic Peninsula including a description of the ecology and post-larval development of species of <em>Scalibregma </em>and <em>Oligobregma</em>. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4033(1): 57-93., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4033.1.3 page(s): table 2 [details]
Holotype USNM 186437, geounit California [details]
Nontype Private CASIZ 119536, geounit California [details]
Nontype Private CASIZ 119537, geounit California [details]
Paratype SBMNH 345447, geounit Santa Barbara Channel [details]
Paratype USNM 186436, geounit Santa Barbara Channel [details]
Paratype USNM 186438, geounit California [details]
From editor or global species database
Authority Authorship was earlier recorded as "Blake in Blake, Hilbig & Scott, 2000". This is incorrect. Blake, Hilbig & Scott are only editors of a chaptered book, not authors of a taxonomic work. [details]
Depth range From 90 to 113 m, and 2710 m. [details]
Distribution Pacific Ocean: California in shelf and slope depths. [details]
Etymology Species named after the State of California. [details]
Type locality Santa Maria Basin (California), off Point Sal, 90 m. [details]
Type material Holotype (USNM 186437) and paratypes (USNM 187436, 187438) deposited in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA. One paratype (SBMNH 345447) deposited in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, California, USA. [details]
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