original description
Hartman, Olga. (1967). Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 2: 1-387.
page(s): 66, plate 17 figs. A-D [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source
Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
de León-González, Jesús Angel; Trovant, Berenice. (2013). A new species of <i>Nicon</i> Kinberg, 1866 (Polychaeta, Nereididae) from Ecuador, Eastern Pacific, with a key to all known species of the genus. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 269: 67-76., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.269.4003
page(s): 73; note: regarded N. abyssalis as valid member of genus [details]
From editor or global species database
Status Pettibone (1971) was uncertain if N. abyssalis belonged in Nicon. de León-González & Trovant (2013) prefer to regard N. abyssalis as a valid member of the genus. [details]Unreviewed
Specimen Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]
Type locality Antarctic Ocean, off Antarctic Peninsula [details]