Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Abe, Hirokazu; Sato-Okoshi, Waka. (2020). Novel symbiotic relationship between a spionid polychaete and <em>Lingula</em> (Brachiopoda: Lingulata: Lingulidae), with description of <em>Polydora lingulicola</em> sp. nov. (Annelida: Spionidae). <em>Zoosymposia.</em> 19(1): 103-120., available online at https://www.mapress.com/j/zs/article/view/zoosymposia.19.1.13 page(s): 109, figures 3-4; note: Kumagawa River Estuary, Yatsushiro Sea, Kumamoto Pref., Japan [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype NSMT NSMT-Pol H-790, geounit Japan [details]
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Association Commensal on brachiopod Lingula anatina. Does not bore into its shell. [details]
Etymology authors: "The specific name lingulicola is a combination of two words, the host genus name Lingula
plus Latin word -cola (= dweller), which refers to the symbiotic relationship of the species with a brachiopod species belonging to the genus Lingula" [details]
Taxonomy Molecularly and morphologically close to a Chinese specimen reported as P. aura Sato-Okoshi, 1998 sensu Ye et al. (2019) [details]
Type locality Kumagawa River Estuary, Yatsushiro Sea, Kumamoto Pref., S. Japan, 32.5333, 130.55 (32°32'N, 130°33'E), isolated from Lingula anatina, intertidal [details]
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