Species Synelmis gibbsi Salazar-Vallejo, 2003

Museums

Regional Maps

• Synelmis gibbsi Salazar-Vallejo, S.I. 2003. Revision of Synelmis Chamberlin, 1919 (Annelida, Polychaeta, Pilargidae). Zoosystema 25(1): 17-42 [26–27, figs 1C, 5].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1970.308 2 specimens, Komimbo Bay, north west Guadacanal Islands, Solomon Islands; LACM-AHF 2093 1 specimen, anterior fragment, Enirik Island, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.
• Synelmis albini Gallardo, V.A. 1968. Polychaeta from the Bay of Nha Trang, South Vietnam. Naga Report, 4(3). pp.35-279 [61-62].
• Ancistrosyllis rigida Hartman, O. 1954. Marine annelids from the northern Marshall islands. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 260: 615-644 [625] (Enirik Island only).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Salazar-Vallejo, S.I. 2003. Revision of Synelmis Chamberlin, 1919 (Annelida, Polychaeta, Pilargidae). Zoosystema 25(1): 17-42 [26]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Arafura Sea, northern Australia; Indo-west Pacific to Red Sea and Persian Gulf in the west

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

From intertidal to 831 m

General References

Glasby, C.J. & Marks, S. 2013. Revision of the genus Synelmis Chamberlin, 1919 (Annelida: Phyllodocida: Pilargidae) in Australia. Zootaxa 3646(5): 561-574 [563] (first record of Australian specimens)

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