Phascolion (Montuga) lutense Selenka
Description
Phascolion (Montuga) lutense Selenka
Phascolion lutense Selenka, 1885:16 –17.
Type locality: South Pacific, 3500 m.
Remarks: The 134 specimens in the collection were living within the unique but typical cylindrical gray clay/mucus tubes of their own construction, 8–26 mm long. Other than the dense array of small gray papillae surrounding the base of the introvert there are no other epidermal ornamentations on the light gray bodies. Internally the strong introvert retractor muscles are fused into a single column until very near the posterior end where they bifurcate for a short distance.
Distribution: A coldwater species (1000–6860 m), unknown from lower latitudes, even in deep water. Widely collected in the Southern Hemisphere in all the worlds oceans, including the Antarctic. In northern waters it is recorded from the northwestern Pacific and the northeastern Atlantic. These are the first records from New Zealand waters, but are only a modest range extension of the large nearby Antarctic population (Cutler et al., 2001).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.158002 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FE39FF9C42410B605E45FFB2FF9AFFA1 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/020087E442490B685F4DFE0EFECEFBEA (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/119602066 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/41768/taxon/020087E442490B685F4DFE0EFECEFBEA.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Phascoliidae
- Genus
- Phascolion
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Golfingiiformes
- Phylum
- Sipuncula
- Scientific name authorship
- Selenka
- Species
- lutense
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Selenka, E. (1885) Report on the Gephyrea collected by H. M. S. Challenger during 1873 - 76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, Zoology, 13, 1 - 25.
- Cutler, E. B., Dean, H. K. & Saiz-Salinas, J. I. (2001) Sipuncula from Antarctic Waters. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 114, 861 - 880.