Mesochaetopterus selangora (Rullier, 1976)

Razmi Shah, Raz Shauqeena Batrisyea, Ibrahim, Yusof Shuaib, Villalobos-Guerrero, Tulio F. & Sato, Masanori, 2023, Updated checklist of polychaete species (Annelida) recorded from Malaysia, with remarks on the research history, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 110021-110021 : 110021

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scientific name

Mesochaetopterus selangora (Rullier, 1976)
status

 

Mesochaetopterus selangora (Rullier, 1976) View in CoL

Distribution

Type locality. Morib, Selangor, Malaysia.

Distribution in Malaysia. Only from type locality ( Rullier 1976, Nishi 1999, Idris and Arshad 2013).

Notes

Endemic species. Previously recorded as Sasekumaria selangora Rullier, 1976. The porcellanid crab Polyonyx vermicola Ng & Sasekumar, 1993 is an obligate commensal of tubes of the chaetopterid worm ( Ng and Sasekumar 1993).