Polychaeta name details
original description
Hartman, Olga. (1967). Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 2: 1-387. page(s): 103-104; note: no figures [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record
Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
Mackie, Andrew S. Y. 1987. A review of species currently assigned to the genus Leitoscoloplos Day, 1977 (Polychaeta: Orbiniidae), with descriptions of species newly referred to Scoloplos Blainville, 1828. Sarsia, 72: 1-28. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 20 [details]
Holotype USNM 55531, geounit Yaghan Basin [details]
Paratype USNM 55532, geounit Yaghan Basin [details]
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Depth range 1437-4008 m. [details]
Distribution South Atlantic Ocean: off Cape Horn (Yaghan Basin); off Falkland Islands; South Shetland Islands. [details]
Etymology Not explicitly stated. The specific epithet abranchiata (masculine: abranchiatus) is a New Latin adjective composed by the Latin prefix a-, meaning 'absence of', and the Latin adjective branchiatus, meaning 'having gills', and refers to the lack of branchiae in the species: "Branchiae are absent. [...] H. abranchiata differs from other species of the genus in lacking branchiae" (Hartman, 1965: 103-104). [details]
Habitat Type of sediment not stated, at bathyal and abyssal depths. [details]
Specimen Holotype deposited at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA (USNM 55531). [details]
Type locality Off Cape Horn, Yaghan Basin, South Atlantic Ocean (-56.0333°, -61.9333° to -56.0167°, -61.9167°). [details]
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