WoRMS name details
original description
Claparède, Édouard. (1864). Glanures zootomiques parmi les annélides de Port-Vendres (Pyrénées Orientales). <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 17(2): 463-600, plates I-VIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1972 page(s): 484-490, plate II fig. 2 [details]
additional source
Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ page(s): 637 [details]
source of synonymy
Fauvel, P. (1927). Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires. <em>Faune de France Volume 16. Paul Lechevalier. Paris.</em> 1-494., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/P.FAUVEL(FdeFr16)Polychetes-sendentaires.pdf [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Shallow water, from the bottom of a harbour. [details]
Distribution Mediterranean Sea: Port-Vendres (France). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet pallida (masculine: pallidus) is a Latin adjective meaning 'pale', and refers to the light colour of the species, ''d'un jaunâtre orangé très-pâle'' (Claparède, 1864: 484). [details]
Habitat Mud, from the bottom of the harbour of Port-Vendres. [details]
Specimen Types not retained. [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus. [details]
Type locality Harbour of Port-Vendres, France, Mediterranean Sea (gazetteer estimate 42.519º, 03.109º), mud.
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