WoRMS taxon details
original description
Ehlers, Ernst. (1907). Neuseeländische Anneliden. II. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge.</em> 5(4): 3-31., available online at http://goo.gl/Jpqjvv page(s): 14-16, figs. 4-6 [details]
additional source
Estcourt, I. N. (1967). Burrowing polychaete worms from a New Zealand estuary. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Zoology.</em> 9(7): 65-78., available online at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/transactions-of-the-royal-society-of-new-zealand-zoology/1967/07/14 page(s): 73, fig. 5 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Augener, Hermann. (1926). Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XXXIV. Polychaeta III. Polychaeten von Neuseeland. II. Sedentaria. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn.</em> 81: 157-294. page(s): 163-164, fig. 3 [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype ZMB 6723, geounit South Island [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range At shallow water. [details]
Distribution New Zealand: South Island (Moeraki, Otago; Heathcote River, Christchurch; Water of Leigh, Dunedin; lower estuaries of the Taieri and Waikouaiti Rivers); North Island (Rangaunu Harbour, Northland). In the lower regions of the water courses, up to 3.5 km upstream in some of them. [details]
Etymology The species is named for Sir William B. Benham (b. Isleworth, Middlesex, England, 29 March 1860 - d. Dunedin, New Zealand, 21 August 1950), Professor of Biology at the University of Otago (New Zealand) from 1898 to 1937. [details]
Habitat In soft sediment with a high clay-silt fraction, in the coastal seawater as well as in estuarine areas and enclosed harbours, being confined to the lower end of estuaries. [details]
Type locality Moeraki, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, South Pacific Ocean (gazetteer estimate -45.357º, 170.847º). [details]
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