Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852 page(s): 95, fig. 13d-f [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype USNM 43126, geounit North Carolina Shelf [details]
Paratype USNM 43127, geounit North Carolina Shelf [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 19-80 m. [details]
Distribution North Carolina Shelf, Northwest Atlantic. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet parva refers probably to the size of the worm when compared with the other species of Travisia recorded from the United States, as Day (1973) states that all have 24 or more setigers, against 20 setigers in the two types of Travisia parva. [details]
Habitat Coarse to fine sand, at shelf depths. [details]
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina, off Beaufort. [details]
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