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Pilargis Saint-Joseph, 1899

129466  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129466)

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Phronia Webster, 1879 · unaccepted (junior homonym of a dipteran genus)

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Saint-Joseph, Arthur d'Anthoine de. (1899). Note sur une nouvelle famille d'Annélides Polychètes. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 5: 41-42., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5029420
page(s): 42 [details]   
Etymology Not stated. Unclear. We do not know. Not a known word in Latin or Greek, and seemingly no other biologist has used it....  
Etymology Not stated. Unclear. We do not know. Not a known word in Latin or Greek, and seemingly no other biologist has used it. Possibly (speculation) derived from 'pila' Latin for ball, with 'pilaris' being 'of a ball', in reference to the body surface ornamentations of the type species, named 'verrucosa' for the warty body surface. Saint-Joseph wrote: "Le corps rigide, cassant, d'un brun très clair, couvert partout de nombreuses verrues blanches du côté dorsal". Alternatively in further speculation the closest mythological name to Pilargis would be Pylarge, who was one of the fifty Danaids (Daughters of a mythical King Danaus). Pylarge is a butterfly genus of Herrich-Schaeffer (1856), so it was pre-occupied at the time Saint-Joseph was creating his name. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Pilargis Saint-Joseph, 1899. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129466 on 2024-03-28
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2006-09-27 07:06:07Z
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Martinez, Olga
2008-03-04 10:31:00Z
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2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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original description Saint-Joseph, Arthur d'Anthoine de. (1899). Note sur une nouvelle famille d'Annélides Polychètes. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 5: 41-42., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5029420
page(s): 42 [details]   

original description  (of Phronia Webster, 1879) Webster, Harrison Edwin. (1879). The Annelida Chaetopoda of the Virginian coast. <em>Transactions of the Albany Institute.</em> 9: 202-269, plates I-XI., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43082522
page(s): 268 [details]   

additional source Salazar‐Vallejo, S.I.; Harris, L.H. (2006). Revision of <i>Pilargis</i> de Saint‐Joseph, 1899 (Annelida, Polychaeta, Pilargidae). <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 40(3-4): 119-159., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930600594212
page(s): 125-126; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details]   

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 Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]   

additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596  [details]   

additional source Saint-Joseph, Arthur d'Anthoine de. (1899). Annélides polychètes de la rade de Brest et de Paimpol. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie et Paléontologie, Série 8.</em> 10: 161-194, plate VI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36044621
page(s): 175 [details]   

redescription Saint-Joseph, Arthur d'Anthoine de. (1899). Annélides polychètes de la rade de Brest et de Paimpol. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie et Paléontologie, Série 8.</em> 10: 161-194, plate VI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36044621
page(s): 175; note: description repeated with figures of the species [details]   

identification resource Rasmussen, K.J.F. (1973). A new species of <i>Pilargis</i> (Polychaeta Pilargidae) from the deep soft sediments of Fensfjorden, Western Norway. <em>Sarsia.</em> 53: 19-24., available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00364827.1973.10411243?journalCode=ssar20
page(s): 22-23; note: includes a key to all the hitherto known species [details]   
 
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Diagnosis Emended diagnosis by Salazar-Vallejo & Harris (2006: 125): "Pilarginae with large biarticulated palps, palpostyles minute, without ventral papilla. Paired lateral antenna present, no median antenna. Two pairs of tentacular cirri. Parapodia well-developed, notocirri enlarged, separated in cirrophore and cirrostyles (potential autopomorphy in the subfamily), sometimes reduced. Notosetae completely absent (autoapomorphy in the subfamily). Neurosetae capillaries smooth or slightly limbate, blade slightly spinulose or smooth, tips straight or curved ("bifid"). Pygidium with or without anal cirri. Pharynx globose, smooth. Intestine with lateral diverticula.[details]

Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Saint-Joseph (1899: 42): "Corps long à nombreux segments, plat, ayant seulement l'axe longitudinal médian dorsal un peu convexe. Petite tête sans yeux, divisée en deux lobes à la partie antérieure du côté dorsal et sur toute sa longueur du côté ventral, une paire d'antennes latérales massives. Segment buccal achète portant deux paires de cirres tentaculaires ventraux, semblables aux cirres ventraux des segments suivants, dont les pieds sont indistinctement biramés avec un acicule fin à la base du cirre dorsal spatulé et un faisceau de soies accompagné d'un acicule au-dessus du cirre ventral spatulé. Soies simples finissant en pointe bifide. Anus terminal (sans cirres anaux?).[details]

Etymology Not stated. Unclear. We do not know. Not a known word in Latin or Greek, and seemingly no other biologist has used it. Possibly (speculation) derived from 'pila' Latin for ball, with 'pilaris' being 'of a ball', in reference to the body surface ornamentations of the type species, named 'verrucosa' for the warty body surface. Saint-Joseph wrote: "Le corps rigide, cassant, d'un brun très clair, couvert partout de nombreuses verrues blanches du côté dorsal". Alternatively in further speculation the closest mythological name to Pilargis would be Pylarge, who was one of the fifty Danaids (Daughters of a mythical King Danaus). Pylarge is a butterfly genus of Herrich-Schaeffer (1856), so it was pre-occupied at the time Saint-Joseph was creating his name. [details]