Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Hutchings, Patricia A. (1997). The Terebellidae (Polychaeta) of Northern Australia with a key to all the described species of the region. pages 133-161, 7 figures. IN: Hanley, J.R.; Caswell, G.; Megirian, D.; Larson, H.K. (Eds.). <em>Proceedings of the Sixth International Biological Workshop. The marine flora and fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia.</em> Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory and the Australian Marine Sciences Association. Darwin, Australia. page(s): 141-143, fig. 3A-D [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription
Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos; Carrerette, Orlemir; Hutchings, Pat; Fitzhugh, Kirk. (2018). Systematic review of the species of the family Telothelepodidae Nogueira, Fitzhugh & Hutchings, 2013 (Annelida, Terebelliformia), with descriptions of three new species. <em>Marine Biology Research.</em> 1-41 [online before print, 19 Jan 2018]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2017.1401729 page(s): 26-29, figs. 18-19; note: redescription based on holotype [details]
Holotype NTM W9549, geounit Melville Bay [details]
Paratype NTM W9550, geounit Melville Bay [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Shallow subtidal. [details]
Distribution Australia: Northern Territory (Melville Bay). [details]
Etymology "The specific name is the word for a hill or mountain in the various Yolgnu Matha language dialect groups around MelvilIe Bay, the type locality, and refers to the prominent subterminal dorsal button on the uncini" (Hutchings 1997: 142). [details]
Habitat No substrata data available, shallow subtidal. [details]
Type locality Gove, Melville Bay, Northern Territory, Australia, Arafura Sea, Pacific Ocean (-12.1958°, 136.6881°). [details]
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