Lechapt, Jean-Paul. (1994). Tharyx retierei, a new species of Cirratulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 74(2): 413-418.
Tharyx retierei, a new species of bipalpate Cirratulidae (Polychaeta), has been collected from subtidal depths south of Safi, off the Atlantic coast of Morocco. The species differs from all other known bipalpate cirratulids in possessing aristate and pseudocompound neurosetae in posterior segments. The species is described and figured and its affinities are briefly discussed.
Eastern Atlantic warm temperate to boreal
Lusitanian region: Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands to west Iberian Peninsula together
North Africa in general
