WoRMS name details
original description
Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631 page(s): 391-392, plate XXIII fig. 63 [details]
source of synonymy
Ssolowiew, M. (1899). Polychaeten-Studien. I. Die Terebelliden des Weissen Meeres. <em>Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg.</em> 4(2): 179-220, plates X-XIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39099726 page(s): 185-187, plate X figs. 1-2; note: with Polycirrus medusa Grube, 1850 [details]
new combination reference
Levinsen, G.M.R. (1884 (for year 1883)). Systematisk-geografisk Oversigt over de nordiske Annulata, Gephyrea, Chaetognathi og Balanoglossi. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn.</em> 45(1883): 95-354 + plates II-III., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16065206 page(s): 172-173 + footnote on page 173; note: as Leucariste smitti (Malmgren, 1866) [details]
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Depth range 20-40 fathoms (36.6-73.2 m). [details]
Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Malmgren (1866: 391-392): "Corpus dorso convexo, ventre subplano, antice tumidum posteriora versus sensim attenuatum, segmentis c. 50 — 70, in spiritu saepissime spiraliter sese convolvens. Tentacula numerosissima comam magnam densissimam componentia, sat longa. Tubercula setigera subcylindrica. Pinnulae uncinigerae minutae per latera ventris decurrentes. Scuta ventralia antica subrectangularia lata postice sensim minora. Color saepissime albicans, interdum subaurantiacus. Longit. 30 — 40 m.m., latit. antice 5 — 6 m.m." [details]
Distribution Arctic Ocean: Svalbard (= Spitsbergen). North Atlantic: South Greenland. [details]
Etymology Not stated in the original description. The species is probably named after Prof. Dr. Fredrik Adams Smitt (b. Halmstad, 9 May 1839 — d. Stockholm, 19 February 1904), Swedish zoologist who collected part of the type material during the 1861 Swedish expedition to Svalbard (= Spitsbergen). [details]
Habitat Muddy sediments, at shelf depths. [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed. [details]
Type locality Syntypes from several different localities, mainly at Spitsbergen (= Svalbard), but also south Greenland: a) northern and eastern coasts of Spitsbergen (Arctic Ocean and Barents Sea): Treurenbergbay (= Sorgfjorden; gazetteer estimate 79.933°, 16.833°), Whalerspoint (gazetteer estimate 77.54°, 20.74°), Shoalpoint (= Storsteinhalvøya; gazetteer estimate 80.18°, 17.85°), Waygatsöarne or Waygats Islands (= Vaigattøyane; gazetteer estimate 79.315°, 19.875°); b) western coast of Spitsbergen (Greenland Sea): Crossbay (= Krossfjorden; gazetteer estimate 79.185°, 11.775°), Kingsbay (= Kongsfjorden; gazetteer estimate 78.98°, 11.88°); c) Southern Greenland: Julianehaab (= Qaqortoq; gazetteer estimate 60.717°, -46.036°). [details]
Type material No type material located by Glasby & Hutchings (2014: 115). [details]
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