Grania levis Coates & Erseus 1985

• Main Authors: Prantoni, Alessandro, Lana, Paulo C., Erséus, Christer
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Clitellata; Enchytraeida; Enchytraeidae; Grania; Grania levis; Diaz; Coates; Locke; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3852722; https://zenodo.org/record/3852722

20. Grania levis Coates & Erséus, 1985 Grania levis Coates & Erséus, 1985: 111–112, fig. 6. Grania levis – Diaz et al . 1987: tabs 1, 4. — Locke & Coates 2000: 626. ? Grania cf. levis – Prantoni et al . 2016: 502. Type material Holotype UNITED STATES: Georges Bank (USNM 96509). Paratypes UNITED STATES: Georges Bank (USNM 96510); off New Jersey (USNM 96511). Other material UNITED STATES: off North Carolina (USNM 1283176; immature specimen, see Prantoni et al . 2016). Type locality UNITED STATES: Georges Bank, SE of Massachusetts, NW Atlantic Ocean. Habitat Intertidal, subtidal to 79 m (probably to 492 m, see Prantoni et al . 2016), medium to coarse sand. Distribution Georges Bank SE of Massachusetts, on the continental shelf (and slope?) off New Jersey and North Carolina, USA. : Published as part of Prantoni, Alessandro, Lana, Paulo C. & Erséus, Christer, 2017, Global checklist of species of Grania (Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) with remarks on their geographic distribution, pp. 1-44 in European Journal of Taxonomy 391 on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.391, http://zenodo.org/record/3838685 : {"references": ["Coates K. A. & Erseus C. 1985. Marine enchytraeids (Oligochaeta) of the coastal Northwest Atlantic (northern and mid U. S. A.). Zoologica Scripta 14: 103 - 116. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1985. tb 00181. x", "Diaz R. J., Erseus C. & Boesch D. F. 1987. Distribution and ecology of Middle Atlantic Bight Oligochaeta. Hydrobiologia 155: 215 - 225. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00025654", "Locke J. M. & Coates K. A. 2000. An illustrated key to the species of Grania and Randidrilus (Annelida: Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) of eastern North America, Bermuda, and the Caribbean area. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113: 617 - 632.", "Prantoni A. L., De Wit P. & Erseus C. 2016. First reports of Grania (Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) from Africa and South America: molecular phylogeny and descriptions of nine new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176: 485 - 510. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / zoj. 12333"]}