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""B. SALVAT and Y. PLESSIS, on mission to New Caledonia, under the aegis of the Singer Polignac Foundation, at the end of 1961 and at the beginning of 1962, collected many specimens of Polychaete. The research was carried out in an autonomous diving suit between 2 and 35 meters depth, [also] by collecting at low tide in the intertidal zone, and only once by dredging. Y. PLESSIS reported on the zoological surveys in Volume IV of the Cahiers du Pacifique and B. SALVAT in "Faunistic prospecting in New Caledonia", within the framework of the mission of studies of the coral reefs , No. 6, June 1964, pp. 77-19), cites the principal stations visited and the techniques employed." [...]"
"This collection includes 187 species, of which 103 are new for New Caledonia and 18 (one from the Gulf of Panama) are new to science; that is to say the considerable contribution it represents. The new species are distributed as follows: 3 Aphroditidae: Lepidonotus (Thormora) salvati, Lagisca hirsuta, Harmothoë lunulata (delle Chiaje) var. nigra; 1 Hesionidae: Ophiodromus tigrinus; 3 Syllidae: Syllis (Typosyllis) plessisi; Syllis (Typosyllis) filiformis, Autolytus bicolor; 3 Nereidae: Nereis homogompha (Gulf of Panama), Nereis (Ceratonereis) dubia, Platynereis hugonis; 1 Glyceridae: Eone salvati; 3 Eunicidae: Eunice plessisi, Marphysa bemardi, Amphiro pacifica; 1 Ariciidae: Scoloplosia minima; 1 Maldanidae: Chaponella heterochaeta nov. Gen., Nov., Sp; 1 Terebellidae: Terebellobranchia hugonis: 1 Sabellidae: Oridia pacifica. The best represented families are Aphroditidae (23 species), Syllidae (20), Nereidae (25), Eunicidae (28). Some families represented so far by very few species have seen their numbers rise rapidly: the Amphinomidae receive 4 species not yet reported in New Caledonia, as opposed to 2 already known, the Phyllodocidae and 7 new arrivals for a single old, the Syllidae, of 20 species, have 3 new and 11 species not yet reported there; the six species of Spionidae are all new to New Caledonia, and of 8 species of Cirratulidae, 6 had not yet been found there. We believe that the autonomous scuba widely used by Mm Plessis and Salvat for the collection of samples and allowing access to biotopes hitherto prohibited to researchers, explains, with the care that they put there, the richness of their discoveries."
Autolytus bicolor Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Ceratonereis dubia Rullier, 1972 represented as Ceratonereis (Composetia) dubia Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Chaponella Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Chaponella heterochaeta Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Eone salvati Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Eunice plessisi Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Harmothoe macrolepidota (Schmarda, 1861) (new combination reference)
Lagisca hirsuta Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Lepidonotus (Thormora) salvati Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Marphysa bernardi Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Nereis homogompha Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Ophiodromus tigrinus Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Oridia pacifica Rullier, 1972 accepted as Amphicorina pacifica (Rullier, 1972) (original description)
Platynereis hugonis Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Polynoe (Lepidonotus) macrolepidota Schmarda, 1861 accepted as Harmothoe macrolepidota (Schmarda, 1861) (source of synonymy)
Scoloplosia Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Scoloplosia minima Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Syllis (Typosyllis) filiformis Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Syllis (Typosyllis) plessisi Rullier, 1972 accepted as Branchiosyllis exilis (Gravier, 1900) (original description)
Terebellobranchia hugonis Rullier, 1972 (original description)
Holotype IRFA Y15, geounit New Caledonia, identified as Syllis (Typosyllis) filiformis Rullier, 1972
Holotype UCO ZA Y16, geounit New Caledonia, identified as Autolytus bicolor Rullier, 1972
Possibly dubious monotypic genus erected for apparent abranchiate orbiniid possessing forked chaetae. Rullier ... [details]
The specific epithet bicolor refers to the color pattern of the species, being white with irregular black segments, ... [details]
author: "Cette espèce est dédiée à notre ami MARCEL BERNARD, à qui nous devons de l'avoir trouvée ce jour-là" [details]
The specific epithet filiformis refers to the thin and long body of the holotype. [details]
The species is dedicated to Mr. Y. Plessis, who collected the holotype in 1961. [details]
Detritic coralligenous soft sediments, at shallow water. [details]
The species was considered as an Autolytinae incertae sedis by Nygren (2004: 182-183), due to the poor condition of ... [details]
The species was considered to be a nomen dubium by Licher (1999), due to the very poor condition of the mounted ... [details]
Pacific Ocean, New Caledonia, Baie de Saint-Vincent, Îlot Ronhua (= Petit Ténia) (geocoordinates not provided, ... [details]
Pacific Ocean, New Caledonia, Baie de Saint-Vincent (geocoordinates not provided, but estimated with a gazetteer to ... [details]
Southwest Pacific Ocean, New Caledonia, L'Île-des-Pins (geocoordinates not provided, but estimated with gazetteer ... [details]
The type material includes only the holotype, mounted in a slide. It was initially deposited at the collections of ... [details]
