WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1979). Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland im Süden). Teil 2. IN: Hartmann-Schröder, G. and Gerd Hartmann. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonder Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. (Teil 2 und Teil 3). <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 76: 77-218. page(s): 110, figs. 171-174 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
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Holotype ZMH P-15517, geounit Australia [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal to 33 m. [details]
Distribution Australia: New South Wales; South Australia; Western Australia. Magellan Strait: Chile (Patagonia). Also New Zealand, Philippines according to San Martin, Lucas, Westheide, 2021 [details]
Etymology The specific epithet heterosetoides is formed by the specific epithet of the species Exogone heterosetosa McIntosh, 1885, and the Latin suffix -oides, meaning 'in the form of', and refers to the similarity between the two species, especially in what concerns the shape of the prostomium, the length of the proventricle, the absence of dorsal cirri in the second chaetiger, and in some way the different types of compound chaetae. [details]
Habitat Fine sand flat with ripple marks and plant debris (Avicennia mangrove 500 m away). Common on all shallow bottoms, on algae, sand, seagrasses, dead corals, mud, etc. In the Magellan Strait found inside tubes of Chaetopterus cf. variopedatus. [details]
Type locality Australia, Western Australia, Broome, tidal flat near town (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -17.9741, long. 122.2302). [details]
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