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WoRMS name details
original description
Gosse, Philip Henry 1855. Notes on some new or little known marine animals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Series 2) 16:27-35, 305-312 (annelids 31-35, 308-312)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2263862
page(s): 309-310, plate VIII fig. 5 [details]
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors  [request]
status source
Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf
page(s): 115, 194 [details] Available for editors [request]
Syntype Types probably lost (fide Nygren, 2004), verbatimGeounit Bristol Channel near... [details]
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Description Gosse was describing a male syllid epitoke from the plankton. These are largely unidentifiable and he may have had more than one species present. He wrote: "Some half-dozen of these little worms were dipped from the surface of the Bristol Channel near Ilfracombe, on a calm afternoon in August last. They swam with excessive agility by a rapid horizontal undulation of the body, in which the long pencils reflected prismatic rays. The moment this undulatory movement ceased, they usually bent themselves into a crescent or circle." Anyone who has seen 'polybostrichus' forms will recognise the above description of their swimming behaviour. [details]
Type locality Bristol Channel near Ilfracombe, England, British Isles [details]
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