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Polychaeta taxon detailsScyphoproctus platyproctus Jones, 1961
331798 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:331798)
accepted
Species
marine,
recent only
Jones, Meredith L. (1961). Two new polychaetes of the families Pilargidae and Capitellidae from the Gulf of Mexico. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 2049: 1-18., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3490
page(s): 10-17, figs. 15-26 [details] Available for editors  [request]
Holotype AMNH 3603, geounit Panama City
Holotype AMNH 3603, geounit Panama City [details] From editor or global species database
Type locality Gulf of Mexico, USA, Florida, 12 miles off Panama City, Bay County (30º00'34''N, 85º54'12''W), at 100 feet (= 30.5 m), in an empty Strombus sp. shell, and inhabiting the vaccated tube of a sabellariid polychaete. [details]
Type material Holotype (AMNH 3603) and paratypes (AMNH 3604) deposited at the American Museum of Natural History, New York (USA). [details]
Depth range 30.5 m.
Depth range 30.5 m. [details] Distribution Gulf of Mexico, off Panama City (Bay County, Florida, USA).
Distribution Gulf of Mexico, off Panama City (Bay County, Florida, USA). [details] Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet platyproctus is composed by the combining forms of Greek origin platy-, meaning 'flat',...
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet platyproctus is composed by the combining forms of Greek origin platy-, meaning 'flat', and -proctus, meaning 'anus', and presumably refers to the shape of the pygidium of the species, described as being "a flattened plaque [...], slightly oblique to a transverse plane" (Jones, 1961: 12). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Scyphoproctus platyproctus Jones, 1961. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=331798 on 2024-04-16
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original description
Jones, Meredith L. (1961). Two new polychaetes of the families Pilargidae and Capitellidae from the Gulf of Mexico. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 2049: 1-18., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3490
page(s): 10-17, figs. 15-26 [details] Available for editors [request] additional source Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Depth range 30.5 m. [details]Distribution Gulf of Mexico, off Panama City (Bay County, Florida, USA). [details] Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet platyproctus is composed by the combining forms of Greek origin platy-, meaning 'flat', and -proctus, meaning 'anus', and presumably refers to the shape of the pygidium of the species, described as being "a flattened plaque [...], slightly oblique to a transverse plane" (Jones, 1961: 12). [details] Habitat In an empty Strombus sp. shell, and inhabiting the vaccated tube of a sabellariid polychaete, at shelf depths. [details] Type locality Gulf of Mexico, USA, Florida, 12 miles off Panama City, Bay County (30º00'34''N, 85º54'12''W), at 100 feet (= 30.5 m), in an empty Strombus sp. shell, and inhabiting the vaccated tube of a sabellariid polychaete. [details] Type material Holotype (AMNH 3603) and paratypes (AMNH 3604) deposited at the American Museum of Natural History, New York (USA). [details] |