Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943

Tasso, Vicente, El Haddad, Mustapha, Assadi, Carolina, Canales, Remy, Aguirre, Luis & Velez-Zuazo, Ximena, 2018, Macrobenthic fauna from an upwelling coastal area of Peru (Warm Temperate South-eastern Pacific province - Humboldtian ecoregion), Biodiversity Data Journal 6, pp. 28937-28937 : 28937

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e28937

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scientific name

Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943
status

 

Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943 View in CoL View at ENA

Notes

Types of substrate: hard bottom. Depth / bathymetric range: 0-10 m. Station code: D1(0, 5, 10); D2(0, 5, 10) D3(0, 5, 10); D4(0, 5). Remarks: considered as non-native species, with North American Pacific coast being its native distribution area (Cinar 2012). Considered as an invasive species in Hawaii Islands (Cinar 2012), Venezuela and Australia ( Díaz and Liñero-Arana 2009), which has caused extensive damage to oysters.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Spionida

Family

Spionidae

Genus

Polydora