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Original description of Brevibrachium maculatum

Original name (Basionym): Rhamphobrachium maculatum Estcourt 1966

Described from: New Zealand offshore

Type locality: Great Island, Three Kings Islands

Remarks: A single anterior fragment, 14 mm, 42 chaetigers, from on Sargassum johnsonii

Source: Estcourt, I.N. 1966 : A new polychaete from Three Kings Islands Transactions Royal Society of New Zealand. Zoology 7: 205-207.

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