WoRMS taxon details
original description
Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Spionidae Grube, 1850. pages 81-223. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara page(s): 100-101, fig. 4.2 [details]
Holotype USNM 172545, geounit California [details]
Nontype Private, geounit California [details]
Nontype Private, geounit Puget Sound [details]
Paratype LACM AHF Poly 1832, geounit California [details]
Paratype USNM 172546, geounit California [details]
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Depth range Subtidal to about 200 m. [details]
Distribution Eastern Pacific, Puget Sound to central California (USA). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet glandulosa is the feminine of the Latin adjective glandulosus, meaning 'full of glands', and refers to the numerous glands that cover the body and podial lobes of the species. [details]
Habitat Not stated. Occurs at subtidal to shelf depths. [details]
Reproduction One paratype was an ovigerous female with clusters of oocytes in anterior chaetigers and free oocytes posteriorly, the latter irregular in shape measuring about 200 µm across widest dimension (Blake, 1996: 101). [details]
Type locality Pacific Ocean, USA, California, near head of Carmel Canyon (36º27.49'N, 121º59.44'W), ca. 200 m. [details]
Type material Smithsonian Institution, Washington (holotype: USNM 172545; paratypes USNM 172546); Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles (paratypes AHF Poly 1832). [details]
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