Notaulax yamasui

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Sabellida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Annelida Classis: Polychaeta Subclassis: Palpata Ordo: Canalipalpata Subordo: Sabellida

Familia: Sabellidae
Subfamilia: Sabellinae
Genus: Notaulax
Species: Notaulax yamasui

Name

Notaulax yamasui Nishi, Gil, Tanaka & Kupriyanova, 2017

Holotype: CMNH-ZW00217, complete specimen with fragment of tube, 13 February 1996, by hand, coll. by E. Nishi.

Type locality: extracted from living coral mass of Porites sp., collected in the subtidal zone (0–2 m) of a shallow coral reef area at Maeda-Misaki Cape, 26°26.716'N, 127°46.329'E, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, south-western Japan, Pacific Ocean.

Paratypes: CMNH-ZW00220, incomplete specimen lacking posterior abdomen and tube, collected on a dead Porites sp. coral colony, at Kominato, Chichi-jima Island, Ogasawara Archipelago, south-east Japan, Pacific Ocean, 16 July 1999, coll. by Prec. Institute Co Ltd.

Etymology: named after Terufumi Yamasu.

ZooBank: 841FE0ED-E2E5-44E7-AFB4-8FDB399251D9

References

Primary references

Nishi, E., Gil, J., Tanaka, K. & Kupriyanova, E.K. 2017. Notaulax yamasui sp. n. (Annelida, Sabellidae) from Okinawa and Ogasawara, Japan, with notes on its ecology. ZooKeys 660: 1—16. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.660.11228. Reference page.

Links

Notaulax yamasui in the World Register of Marine Species

BHL bibliography
Notaulax yamasui – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Notaulax yamasui.
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