WoRMS name details
original description
Friedrich, H. (1937). Polychaetenstudien. I-III. 1. Hesionides arenaria n.sp. n.gen., ein neuer Polychaet aus der Otoplanenzone der Nordsee. 2. Polydora ligni Webster 1880 in der Ostsee. 3. Über einige Klein-Polychaeten von Helgoland. <em>Kieler Meeresforschungen.</em> 1(2): 343-351. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 349-351, figs. 9-10 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 19-21 m. [details]
Distribution Southern North Sea (Helgoland), Atlantic Ocean. [details]
Etymology The species is dedicated to Dr. Hermann Augener (b. Hamburg, October 2, 1872 - d. Hamburg, April 5, 1938), German polychaetologist (Orbituary at Nature). [details]
Habitat Amphioxus ground (coarse sand), between 19-21 m depth. [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus. [details]
Type locality Helgoland, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean. Type locality originally described as ''Amphioxus-Sand von Helgoland'' (Friedrich, 1937: 347). Banse (1969: 2615) added the following, concerning Macrochaeta helgolandica, with the same type locality than Mystides augeneri: ''The type locality is the ''Amphioxus ground'' near the island of Heligoland. This ground, where dredgings have been made for decades by the Biological Station at Heligoland, is approximately a rectangle with the southwestern corner at 54º15.3'N, 07º55.9'E, and extending 0.4' of latitude to the North, and 1.2' of longitude to the East (Dr W. Gunkel, Biological Station, Heligoland, personal communication). The depth is 19-21 m, with coarse sand.'' [details]
Type material ''Type material lost'' (Pleijel, 1991: 257). [details]
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