Amaeana breviachaeta Nogueira, Carrerette & Hutchings, 2015

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
SPECIES: Published in
Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos; Carrerette, Orlemir; Hutchings, Pat A. Review of Amaeana Hartman, 1959 (Annelida, Terebelliformia, Polycirridae), with descriptions of seven new species. Zootaxa. 3994(1): 1-52 (2015).

Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Annelida: class
Polychaeta: family
Terebellidae: genus
Amaeana: species
Amaeana breviachaeta

materials_examined

Material examined. Holotype: AM W. 46526, Watsons Bay, fine sandy sediment, 9 m, coll. Capa & Hutchings, on SCUBA, 30 Aug 2010, CReefs, posteriorly incomplete specimen, in good state of preservation, with 28 segments, ~ 5 mm long, 1.1 mm wide.

materials_examined

Type locality. Watsons Bay, 14 ° 39 ' 30 " S, 145 ° 26 ' 56 " E, Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

etymology

Etymology. The epithet “ breviachaeta ” refers to the short achaetous region, between termination of notopodia and beginning of neuropodia; brevis = short, from the Latin.

materials_examined

Material Examined: Holotype AM W. 46526 (coll. M. Capa & P. Hutchings, 30. Aug. 2010, during CReefs, on SCUBA, 9 m, fine sandy sediment): 1 incomplete specimen, with 28 segments; slides: notopodium, segment 8; neuropodium, segment 21; neuropodium, segment 27. Type locality. Australia, Queensland, Great Barrier Reef, Lizard Island, Watsons Bay, 14 ° 39 ' 30 " S, 145 ° 26 ' 56 " E, 9 m.

Name

Homonyms: Amaeana breviachaeta Nogueira, Carrerette & Hutchings, 2015

Bibliographic References

Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos; Carrerette, Orlemir; Hutchings, Pat A. (2015). Review of <em>Amaeana</em> Hartman, 1959 (Annelida, Terebelliformia, Polycirridae), with descriptions of seven new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3994(1): 1-52.