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Original description of Boccardia acus

Original name (Basionym): Paraboccardia acus Rainer 1973

Described from: New Zealand

Type locality: Papanui Beach, Otago Peninsula

Remarks: In Perna canaliculus and Chione stutchburyi [now Austrovenus]

Source: Rainer, S.F. 1973 : Polydora and related genera (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Otago waters Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 3: 545-564.

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