Gattyana fauveli

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Gattyana fauveli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae
Genus: Gattyana
Species:
G. fauveli
Binomial name
Gattyana fauveli
Misra, 1999[1]

Gattyana fauveli is a scale worm described from the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean in intertidal and shallow water.[2]

Biology and Ecology[edit]

Gattyana fauveli has a commensal relationship with the echiuran, Anelassorhynchus branchiorhynchus.


References[edit]

  1. ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Gattyana fauveli Misra, 1999. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=328076
  2. ^ Misra, A. (1999). Polychaete [Fauna of West Bengal]. [book chapter]. pp. 125-225. In: Gosh, A.K. (ed.). Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, Series 3. State Fauna Series, Fauna of West Bengal, part 10, Invertebrates., available online at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/php/sfs_books_list.php