WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338 page(s): 91-93, plate 25 figs. 8-20 [details]
original description
(of Staurocephalus gregaricus Mayer, 1900) Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough. (1900). An Atlantic Palolo, Staurocephalus gregaricus. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 36(1): 1-14., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30098249 page(s): 2-12, plate 1 figs. 1-9, plate 2 figs. 10-17, plate 3 figs. 18-27 [details]
Taxonomyredescription
Fauchald, K. (1992). A review of the genus <i>Eunice</i> (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 523: 1-422., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.523 page(s): 150 [not clear if Ehlers' or Mayer's specimens are re-examined] [details]
Ecologyecology source
Clark, L. B. and Hess, W. N. 1928. Swarming of the palolo worm (Eunice fucata) under natural conditions with observations of reactions of free living sexual ends. Report of the Tortugas Laboratory, Carnegie Institute Year Book 37: 88. [details]
ecology source
Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough. (1908). The annual breeding-swarm of the Atlantic Palolo. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 102: 107-112., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1632941 [details]
Othercontext source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
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]
biology source
Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough. (1902). The Atlantic palolo. <em>The Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Sciences bulletin.</em> 1(3): 93-103., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50943311 [details] 
From editor or global species database
Breeding The later papers of Clark & Hess on reproductive swarming were written while the "Atlantic palolo" was placed in Leodice. Earlier Treadwell (1921, reported as Leodice fucata) has a good summary of knowledge to that date, including swarming dates. [details]
Type locality Dry Tortugas, Channel between East and Middle Key, deptb 5 to 7 fathoms, Gulf of Mexico / Caribbean Sea. [details]
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