Species Magelona pitelkai Hartman, 1944

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• Magelona pitelkai Hartman, O. 1944. Polychaetous annelids from California, including the descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 10: 239-310 [260-261].

  Type data:

   Holotype AHF Poly 0590 (posteriorly incomplete, 54 chaetigers), Tomales Bay, California.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

In Australia known only from Merimbula, NSW.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Lower E coast

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • California

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal down to 30 m depth.

 

Citations

Magelona pitelkai.
—Berkeley, E & Berkeley, C. 1952. Annelida, Polychaeta sedentaria. Canadian Pacific Fauna, Fisheries Reserve Board, Canada 9b(2): 1–139 [figs 15–17].
—Hartman, O. 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 & 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 23: 1–628 [393].
—Hartman, O. 1961. Polychaetous annelids from California. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 25: 1–226 [30].
—Hartman, O. 1969. Atlas of the Sedentariate Polychaetous Annelids from California. Los Angeles, California : Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California 1–812 pp. [195–196, figs 1–7].
—Jones, M.L. 1978. Three new species of Magelona (Annelida, Polychaeta) and a redescription of Magelona pitelkai Hartman. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 91: 336–363 [337–344, figs 1–25].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		29-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)