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Moore, J.P. (1905). New species of Polychaeta from the North Pacific, chiefly from Alaskan waters. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 57: 525-554, plates XXXIV-XXXVI.
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Moore, J.P.
1905
New species of Polychaeta from the North Pacific, chiefly from Alaskan waters
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
57: 525-554, plates XXXIV-XXXVI
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
In connection with the investigations of a special Alaskan Salmon Commission the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross established, during the summer of 1903, a series of more than 100 dredging and trawling stations, extending from the vicinity of Vancouver Island along the coast of British America and into Alaskan waters as far north and west as Shelikof Strait. The zoological collections were in charge of Prof. Harold Heath of Leland Stanford Junior University, to whom and to Dr. B.W. Evermann, I owe the opportunity of studying the annelids.
North-eastern Pacific boreal
Systematics, Taxonomy
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Holotype USNM 17450, geounit United States, identified as Aphrodita castanea Moore, 1910
Syntype NMNH 5510, geounit Strait of Georgia, identified as Aphrodita parva Moore, 1905
Holotype ANSP 944, geounit Japan, identified as Aphrodita negligens Moore, 1905
 Diagnosis

Moore's diagnosis is short but he identifies three characters for his genus: "The body is much elongated; anteriorly ... [details]

 Type locality

Honshu Island, Suruga Bay, Omae Zaki, Japan, Albatross Stn 3727, 34°35'N 138°15'E, 62 m [details]

 Type locality

Strait Of Georgia, Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada, ~49°20'N 123°26'W, 203-311 m [details]