Sonatsa
Genus of annelid
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Sonatsa is a genus of marine, mud-dwelling polychaete worms containing the sole species Sonatsa meridionalis.[1] S. meridionalis was described in 1919 by Ralph Vary Chamberlin from a single specimen collected by the research ship USS Albatross during a 1904–05 survey of the southeast Pacific Ocean. The type specimen was collected between Peru and the Galapagos Islands, from muddy sediment at a depth of around 4 km. The name Sonatsa derives from the Goshute words soma, meaning "many", and natsani, meaning "hook", while the specific name meridionalis is Latin for "southern".[2]
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| Anatomy of S. meridionalis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Clade: | Sedentaria |
| Clade: | Maldanomorpha |
| Family: | Maldanidae |
| Genus: | Sonatsa Chamberlin, 1919 |
| Species: | S. meridionalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Sonatsa meridionalis Chamberlin, 1919 | |
