WoRMS taxon details
Phragmatopoma Mörch, 1863
325241 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325241)
accepted
Genus
Phragmatopoma caudata Krøyer in Mörch, 1863 (type by monotypy)
- Species Phragmatopoma attenuata Hartman, 1944
- Species Phragmatopoma balbinae Chávez-López, 2020
- Species Phragmatopoma californica (Fewkes, 1889)
- Species Phragmatopoma carlosi Chávez-López, 2020
- Species Phragmatopoma caudata Krøyer in Mörch, 1863
- Species Phragmatopoma digitata Rioja, 1962
- Species Phragmatopoma moerchi Kinberg, 1866
- Species Phragmatopoma peruensis Hartman, 1944
- Species Phragmatopoma villalobosi Chávez-López, 2020
- Species Phragmatopoma virgini Kinberg, 1866
- Species Phragmatopoma lapidosa Kinberg, 1866 accepted as Phragmatopoma caudata Krøyer in Mörch, 1863 (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1863). Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift København.</em> Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft
page(s): 442 [details]
page(s): 442 [details]
Etymology Not stated. 'Poma' is a neuter Greek noun for a lid (operculum) and 'phragma' is a neuter Greek noun for a hedge or fence....
Etymology Not stated. 'Poma' is a neuter Greek noun for a lid (operculum) and 'phragma' is a neuter Greek noun for a hedge or fence. Thus probably Phragmatopoma is named for a fence-like operculum in the form of the tightly arrayed paleal spines. The genus should be neuter but Mörch used a feminine ending for Phragmatopoma caudata. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Phragmatopoma Mörch, 1863. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325241 on 2025-06-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1863). Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift København.</em> Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft
page(s): 442 [details]
page(s): 442 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Chávez-López, Yessica. (2020). New species and new records of <em>Phragmatopoma</em> (Polychaeta: Sabellariidae) from Tropical America. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4845(3): 301-330., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4845.3.1 [details] Available for editors 
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Etymology Not stated. 'Poma' is a neuter Greek noun for a lid (operculum) and 'phragma' is a neuter Greek noun for a hedge or fence. Thus probably Phragmatopoma is named for a fence-like operculum in the form of the tightly arrayed paleal spines. The genus should be neuter but Mörch used a feminine ending for Phragmatopoma caudata. [details]Grammatical gender In practice Phragmatopoma has been treated as feminine although probably it should have been regarded as neuter. A compound noun derived from two neuter nouns should be neuter, but Mörch and three others subsequently used feminine ending species names. Kirtley (1994:26) stated the genus was feminine, but did not explain the reasoning for his statement. [details]
