Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Pillai, Telesphore Gottfried. (1961). Annelida Polychaeta of Tambalagam Lake, Ceylon. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 4(1): 1-40., available online at http://dl.nsf.gov.lk/handle/1/7600 page(s): 3-7, figs. 1A-G, 2A-F [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (HKRMS)
BU. (2013). Provision of services for field sampling, species identification and data analysis of benthic faunal communities of Hong Kong marin waters. Final report submitted to EPD. [details]
additional source
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]
redescription
Banse, Karl. (1977). Gymnonereidinae new subfamily: the Nereididae (Polychaeta) with bifid parapodial neurocirri. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 11(6): 609-628., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937700770541 page(s): 625 [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription
Hylleberg, J.; Nateewathana, A. (1988). Polychaetes of Thailand. Nereididae (Part 2): <i>Ceratocephale</i> and <i>Gymnonereis</i>, with description of two new species and notes on the subfamily Gymnonereidinae. <em>Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin.</em> 49: 1-20., available online at http://www.pmbc.go.th//web/webpmbc/ResearchBulletin/full/Bulletin%2049_full.pdf page(s): 8-10, fig. 3; note: as Gymnonereis fauveli (Pillai, 1961) [details]
redescription
Imajima, M. (1972). Review of the annelid worms of the family Nereidae of Japan, with descriptions of five new species or subspecies. <em>Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo.</em> 15(1): 37-153. page(s): 44-46, figs. 3a-l, 7 [details]
Holotype NHMUK 1960.3.13.1, geounit Tambalagam Bay [details]
Nontype NSM, geounit Ariake Sea [details]
Nontype NSM, geounit Japan [details]
Paratype NHMUK 1960.3.13.2-5, geounit Tambalagam Bay [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 1.8-59 m. [details]
Distribution Indian Ocean: Tambalagam Lake (Sri Lanka). Andaman Sea (Thailand). South China Sea: Nha Trang Bay (Vietnam). Pacific Ocean: Ariake Sea and Maizuru Bay (Japan). [details]
Etymology Not stated, but the species is named after the French zoologist and polychaetologist Dr. Pierre Louis André Fauvel (b. Cherbourg, France, 8 October 1866 - d. Angers, France, 12 December 1958). [details]
Habitat At type locality found in ramifying burrows in fine black mud which collects between the halves of dead windowpane oyster shells, or between adjoining shells, in brackish water (11.0-19.0 p.p.t.) at shallow depths (1-4 fathoms; 1.8-7.3 m). Other localities in salt water, between 8-35 m.
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Type locality Tambalagam Bay (= Tambalagam Lake), Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean (gazetteer estimate 8.52º, 81.16º). [details]
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