WoRMS taxon details
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Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors [request]
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Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
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Depth range 11-14 m. [details]
Diagnosis Moderate-sized, gonochoristic Pseudopolydora species inhabiting mud tubes in soft bottoms of brackish-water environments. Body pigmentation absent. Prostomium T-shaped anteriorly, with two pointed antero-lateral processes. Four black eyes present. Caruncle reaching middle of segment 6. Median antenna present on caruncle. Segment 1 with long cirriform postchaetal lamellae and winged capillary neurochaetae. Segment 5 not modified, with noto- and neuropodial lamellae; anterior row of notochaetae slightly different from those chaetae on neighboring segments. Glandular pouches largest and paired in segments 6 and 7. [details]
Distribution Pacific Ocean: South China Sea coasts of Taiwan; New Zealand. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet corniculata, feminine of the Latin adjective corniculatus and meaning 'horn-shaped' or 'horned', refers to the morphology of the anterior end of the species, with horn-like antero-lateral processes on the prostomium, long cirriform median antenna on the caruncle, and long cirriform notopodial lamellae on segment 1, giving all together a horned appearance to the species. [details]
Habitat Mud tubes in soft bottoms of brackish-water environments. [details]
Reproduction Female with small oocytes present in segments 19 to 44. Paired gonoducts ending externally into one gonopore on middorsal side of segments 20 to 47. [details]
Type locality West Pacific Ocean, South China Sea, Taiwan, Tainan County, coast off Pachang River (23º20'N, 120º03'E), 14 m, mud. [details]
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