WoRMS taxon details
original description
Hartman, Olga. (1976 [issue for 1974]). Polychaetous annelids of the Indian Ocean including an account of species collected by members of the International Indian Ocean Expeditions, 1963-1964 and a catalogue and bibliography of the species from India. <em>Journal of Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 16(1): 191-252., available online at http://mbai.org.in/php/journaldload.php?id=817&bkid=48 page(s): 224-227, fig. 9a-d [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription
Yokoyama, Hisashi. (2007). A revision of the genus Paraprionospio Caullery (Polychaeta: Spionidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 151(2): 253-284., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/151/2/253/2630866 page(s): 270, figure 12; note: redescription from holotype. Some specimens are referred to Paraprionospio inaequibranchia [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Depth range At the type locality (Mozambique Channel) at 430 m. Other localities (north of Madagascar, Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal) from shallow water to about 64 m. [details]
Distribution Indian Ocean: Mozambique Channel, north of Madagascar, and north of Indian Ocean (Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet lamellibranchia is composed by the Latin prefix lamelli-, meaning 'thin plate or layer', and the New Latin word derived from the Greek branchia, meaning 'gills', and refers to the lamellar character of the branchiae of the species, formed by overlapping leaf like lobes attached to a thick, fleshy longitudinal axis. [details]
Habitat In muddy and clayey sediments, sometimes mixed with broken shells, at shelf depths, and at 430 m. [details]
Identification Yokoyama (2007) refers some of Hartman's original material from the northern Indian Ocean to another species, Paraprionospio inaequibranchia. The holotype of P. lamellibranchia is from the Mozambique Channel [details]
Type locality Indian Ocean, Mozambique Channel, near SW Madagascar (23º17'S, 43º34'E), at 430 m. [details]
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