Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Putignano, Matteo; Toso, Andrea; Fumarola, Lara Marastella; Dimichele, Desirèe; Bariche, Michel; Giangrande, Adriana; Musco, Luigi; Piraino, Stefano; Langeneck, Joachim. (2026). To be or not to be alien, that is the question: the case of five new polychaete species from the Levantine Sea. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 27(2): 330-356., available online at https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/42046 page(s): 332, figure 1; note: Holotype SMF 33454, Tyre, Levantine Sea, 33.3330 N, 35.1880 E, 35 m, hard coralligenous substrate [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype SMF 33454, geounit Levantine Sea [details]
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Etymology Dorvillea phoenicia is "named after the ancient Phoenician people, who inhabited Lebanon." Not stated but assumed to be an un-Latinized unchanging placename noun in apposition. Phoenicia is a Greek word for the land occupied by the Phoenicians from archaic times to a couple of hundred years BCE. [details]
Type locality Holotype SMF 33454, Tyre, Levantine Sea, 33.3330 N, 35.1880 E, 35 m, hard coralligenous substrate [details]
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