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): 70, 3 unnumbered text-figs. on bottom of page 70 [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): 306 [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Not stated in original description. [details]
Distribution Coasts of New Zealand. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet macroura is composed by the Greek prefix makrós, meaning 'long', and the Greek noun oura, meaning 'tail', and refers to the pair of long anal cirri present in the species. [details]
Habitat On stones. [details]
Taxonomy Hartman (1959: 227), considered Syllis macroura as being possibly Opisthosyllis australis Augener, 1913. In the absence of type material and due to the short and insufficient description, Licher (1999: 306) considered the species to be a nomen dubium. [details]
Type locality Coasts of New Zealand, on stones. Further information not provided. [details]
Type material Type material not found by Licher (1999: 306). [details]
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