WoRMS taxon details
original description
San Martín, Guillermo. (1992). <i>Syllis</i> Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Syllinae) from Cuba, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and North Carolina, with a revision of several species described by Verrill. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 51(2): 167-196., available online at https://bit.ly/2XCD39q page(s): 188-190, fig. 9 [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]
Holotype ZMUC Pol-882, geounit North Carolina [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Shallow water, probably subtidal. [details]
Distribution Atlantic coast of USA (North Carolina). [details]
Etymology The species is named in honor of the late Mary E. Petersen, working at the ZMUC and who made most of the North Carolina syllids available to the author. [details]
Habitat Among empty shells at shallow water. [details]
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina (USA), Bogue Sound (geocoordinates not provided but estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. 34.696667°, long. -76.935833°). [details]
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