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Grania atlantica Coates & Erseus 1985

  • 1. Center for Marine Studies, Federal University of Paraná, Av. Beira Mar, s / n, 83255 - 976 Pontal do Paraná, Paraná, Brazil. & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 3 FE 88982 - 3151 - 43 AF-BC 1 C- 5 C 8 F 863729 B 7 & Corresponding author: aprantoni @ gmail. com
  • 2. Center for Marine Studies, Federal University of Paraná, Av. Beira Mar, s / n, 83255 - 976 Pontal do Paraná, Paraná, Brazil. & Email: lana @ ufpr. br & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: B 5 A 74 B 14 - A 681 - 4 D 2 A- 8248 - 67 DE 8 FCE 9 F 7 B
  • 3. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, SE- 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. & Email: christer. erseus @ bioenv. gu. se & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: D 98 F 606 A-B 273 - 4 F 50 - 95 F 5 - C 35 F 17 B 12 C 85

Description

19. Grania atlantica Coates & Erséus, 1985

Grania atlantica Coates & Erséus, 1985: 112–113, fig. 7.

Grania atlantica – Diaz et al. 1987: 222–224, tabs 1, 3–4. — Locke & Coates 2000: 619, 626. — Rota & Erséus 1996: 182; 2003: 210 –211, 235–237, fig. 10e. — Erséus & Rota 2003: 898, tab. 1.

Type material

Holotype

UNITED STATES: off Massachusetts (USNM 96503).

Paratypes

UNITED STATES: off Massachusetts (USNM 96504–96508).

Type locality

UNITED STATES: off Massachusetts.

Habitat

Continental slope, 744–1796 m, fine ooze to silty deep-sea sediments.

Distribution

Widely distributed in the Atlantic Ocean from 48º35.4´N to 09º05´S in the east and from 39º51.2´N to 70º40.8´S in the west.

Notes

Published as part of Prantoni, Alessandro, Lana, Paulo C. & Erséus, Christer, 2017, Global checklist of species of Grania (Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) with remarks on their geographic distribution, pp. 1-44 in European Journal of Taxonomy 391 on page 13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.391, http://zenodo.org/record/3838685

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Family
Enchytraeidae
Genus
Grania
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
USNM 96503
Order
Enchytraeida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Coates & Erseus
Species
atlantica
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Grania atlantica Coates, 1985 sec. Prantoni, Lana & Erséus, 2017

References

  • Coates K. A. & Erseus C. 1985. Marine enchytraeids (Oligochaeta) of the coastal Northwest Atlantic (northern and mid U. S. A.). Zoologica Scripta 14: 103 - 116. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1985. tb 00181. x
  • Diaz R. J., Erseus C. & Boesch D. F. 1987. Distribution and ecology of Middle Atlantic Bight Oligochaeta. Hydrobiologia 155: 215 - 225. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00025654
  • Locke J. M. & Coates K. A. 2000. An illustrated key to the species of Grania and Randidrilus (Annelida: Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) of eastern North America, Bermuda, and the Caribbean area. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113: 617 - 632.
  • Rota E. & Erseus C. 1996. Six new species of Grania (Oligochaeta, Enchytraeidae) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 2: 169 - 183. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0954102096000247
  • Erseus C. & Rota E. 2003. New findings and an overview of the oligochaetous Clitellata (Annelida) of the North Atlantic deep sea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116 (4): 892 - 900.