Polychaeta name details
original description
Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm page(s): 71, two unnumbered text-figs. on the bottom of page 71 [details]
status source
Licher, Frank 2000 (1999), Revision der Gattung Typosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (Polychaeta: Syllidae). Morphologie, Taxonomie und Phylogenie. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 551:1-336 page(s): 304 [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Not stated in the original description. [details]
Distribution South Africa: Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope. [details]
Editor's comment The description of the species Syllis brevis Schmarda, 1861 seems to indicate a specimen belonging to the genus Trypanosyllis Claparède, 1864. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet brevis is a Latin adjective meaning 'brief' or 'short', and refers to the relatively short body of the species (20 mm long, 2.5 mm wide), with very short segments, and short dorsal cirri. [details]
Habitat Not stated in the original description. [details]
Taxonomy In the absence of type material Licher (1999: 304) considered the species to be a nomen dubium. [details]
Type locality South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Table Bay (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -33.88º, long. 18.45º). [details]
Type material Type material not found by Licher (1999: 304), who considered it to be probably lost. [details]
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