WoRMS name details
original description
Johansson, Karl Eric. (1927). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Polychaeten-Familien Hermellidae Sabellidae und Serpulidae. [inaugural-dissertation]. <em>Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala.</em> 11: 1-184. page(s): 130 [details]
taxonomy source
Capa, M.; Murray, A. (2009). Review of the genus <i>Megalomma</i> (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) in Australia with description of three new species, new records and notes on certain features with phylogenetic implications. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 61(2): 201-224., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.61.2009.1529 [details]
taxonomy source
Tovar-Hernández, M.A.; Salazar-Vallejo, S.I. (2008). Caruncle in <i>Megalomma</i> Johansson, 1925 (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) and the description of a new species from the Eastern Tropical Pacific. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 42(29): 1951-1973., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930802140186 [details]
taxonomy source
Tovar-Hernández, María Ana; Carrera-Parra, Luis F. 2011. Megalomma Johansson, 1925 (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) from America and other world-wide localities, and phylogenetic relationships within the genus. Zootaxa 2861 (Monograph): 1-71, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2011/2861.html [details]
taxonomy source
Gil, João; Nishi, Eijiroh. (2017). Nomenclatural checklist for <i>Acromegalomma</i> species (Annelida, Sabellidae), a <i>nomen novum</i> replacement for the junior homonym <i>Megalomma</i> Johansson, 1926. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 677: 131-150., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.677.12030 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment All valid Megalomma species are now recombined in Acromegalomma Gil & Nishi, 2017, replacement name for Megalomma [details]
Grammatical gender Megalomma is a neuter gender, just like Branchiomma is. Therefore there are some gender incorrect species-group suffixes created or combined in it that have continued to be used, eg Megalomma lanigera (was in feminine Sabella) which should be M. lanigerum [details]
Homonymy Megalomma is a replaced homonym to an insect genus, Megalomma Westwood, 1841 in Carabidae. It is replaced by Acromegalomma Gil & Nishi, 2017 [details]
Type species Type species as Amphitrite vesiculosa Montagu, 1815 in Hartman catalogue (1959: 549), but Megalomma type species is actually (by monotypy) Branchiomma koellikeri Claparède, 1869, which is a junior synonym of Sabella lanigera Grube, 1846, now Acromegalomma lanigerum (gender corrected). Amphitrite vesiculosa Montagu, 1815 is now Acromegalomma vesiculosum. In his full work on Megalomma Johansson (1927: 130) introduced Megalomma pacifica as a new species, and recombined several Branchiomma into it, with B koellikeri as a synonym of M. vesiculosa. Unfortunately he had earlier introduced Megalomma in an informal way in 1925 as a new genus for B. koellikeri, and for this reason B. koellikeri is accidentally the type species by monotypy [details]
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