WoRMS name details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Erséus, C. (1990). The marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) of the barrier reef ecosystems at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, and other parts of the Caribbean Sea, with descriptions of twenty-seven new species and revision of Heterodrilus, Thalassodrilides and Smithsonidrilus. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 19(3): 243-303., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1990.tb00259.x [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype USNM 127755, geounit Carrie Bow Cay [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Subtidal sand and gravel, 1 m depth. [details]
Distribution Known only from type locality. Belize [details]
Etymology The name pravus is Latin for 'crooked, distorted, deformed', here referring to the appearance of the penial setae (in comparison with those of closely related species). [details]
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