Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1986). Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Südküste Australiens (zwischen Wallaroo im Westen und Port MacDonnell im Osten). IN: Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa; Hartmann, Gerd. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Teil 12. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 83: 31-70. page(s): 40-41, figs. 16-21 [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype ZMH P-18624, geounit Australia [details]
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Depth range Low eulittoral. [details]
Distribution Australia: South Australia (Spencer Gulf, near Port Augusta). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet similiseta, meaning 'similar chaetae', refers to the fact that compound chaetae from different regions of the body are identical, only with slight differences, mainly in length. [details]
Habitat Sandy silt in mudflat, in shallow water. [details]
Type locality Australia, South Australia, Port Augusta, railway bridge north the town, over Spencer Gulf, mudflat area south the bridge, between railway embankment and mangrove (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -32.4563º, long. 137.7573º) ("Port Augusta: Eisenbahnbrücke nördlich der Stadt über den Spencer-Golf: Wattfläche südlich der Brücke zwischen Bahndamm und Magroven"; Hartmann-Schröder, 1986). [details]
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