WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Erséus, C. (1990). Marine Oligochaeta of Hong Kong. <em>In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the Second International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China. The Marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern china II. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.</em> 1: 259-335. [details] Available for editors [request]
Othercontext source (HKRMS)
Erseus, C. (1997). Additional notes on the taxonomy of the marine Oligochaeta of Hong Kong, with a description of a new species of Tubificidae. <em>In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the Eighth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China IV. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.</em> 37-50., available online at https://lib.hku.hk/Press/9622094376.pdf [details]
additional source
Erséus, C.; Wang, H. (2003). Marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) of the Dampier area, Western Australia. <em>In: F.E. Wells, D.J. Walker & D.S. Jones. The marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth.</em> 363-394., available online at http://benthos.ihb.ac.cn/Ers%C3%A9usWang03Dampier.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype BMNH 1987.3.1, verbatimGeounit Inner end of mangrov... [details]
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Ecology Intertidal sandy substrate near mangroves [details]
Ecology Intertidal sand and gravel. [details]
Etymology The species is named for Dr Ray Gibson (Liverpool.Polytechnic, Liverpool) who collected the sample at Ting Kok [details]
Taxonomic remark This species was originally decribed from an intertidal mangrove site in Hong Kong (Erséus, 1990), but never before recorded from Australia. The Australian material differs from the type specimens by its more numerous anterior somatic chaetae (up to five per bundle, as opposed to two or three per bundle), and slightly smaller male ducts and spermathecae. Moreover, all of the penial chaetae of the Dampier worms appear single-pointed, whereas a few such chaetae were bifid (possessing a small upper tooth) in the Hong Kong material (see Erséus, 1990b: figure 1E). For the time being, these differences are regarded as intraspecific. [details]
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