WoRMS name details
Glossothelepus Hutchings & Glasby, 1986
325252 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325252)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Genus
Glossothelepus mexicanus Hutchings & Glasby, 1986 accepted as Rhinothelepus mexicanus (Hutchings & Glasby, 1986) (type by original designation)
- Species Glossothelepus mexicanus Hutchings & Glasby, 1986 accepted as Rhinothelepus mexicanus (Hutchings & Glasby, 1986) (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hutchings, Patricia A.; Glasby, Christopher J. (1986). <i>Glossothelepus</i>, a new genus of Thelepinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from the Gulf of California, Mexico. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 99(1): 84-87., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34595545
page(s): 84 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 84 [details] Available for editors [request]
Etymology The generic name is a combination of the Greek noun glossos, meaning 'tongue', and and the name of the genus Thelepus...
Etymology The generic name is a combination of the Greek noun glossos, meaning 'tongue', and and the name of the genus Thelepus Leuckart, 1849, type of the subfamily Thelepodinae Hessle, 1917, to which the new genus was assigned, and refers to the expanded glandular tentacular lobe. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Glossothelepus Hutchings & Glasby, 1986. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325252 on 2024-03-19
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original description
Hutchings, Patricia A.; Glasby, Christopher J. (1986). <i>Glossothelepus</i>, a new genus of Thelepinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from the Gulf of California, Mexico. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 99(1): 84-87., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34595545
page(s): 84 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos; Fitzhugh, Kirk; Hutchings, Pat; Carrerette, Orlemir. (2017). Phylogenetic analysis of the family Telothelepodidae Nogueira, Fitzhugh & Hutchings, 2013 (Annelida: Terebelliformia). <em>Marine Biology Research.</em> 1-22., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2017.1283526
page(s): 19 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 84 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos; Fitzhugh, Kirk; Hutchings, Pat; Carrerette, Orlemir. (2017). Phylogenetic analysis of the family Telothelepodidae Nogueira, Fitzhugh & Hutchings, 2013 (Annelida: Terebelliformia). <em>Marine Biology Research.</em> 1-22., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2017.1283526
page(s): 19 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis "Expanded tentacular lobe with numerous buccal tentacles; dorsal buccal lobe T-shaped, and thickened. Numerous sessile simple branchial filaments on segments 2 and 3. Notopodia from segment 3, continuing for at least 23 segments. Notosetae smooth-tipped, narrow-winged, broad-bladed capillaries. Neurosetae from setiger 7, arranged in single rows, avicular." (Hutchings & Glasby, 1986: 84)[details]
Etymology The generic name is a combination of the Greek noun glossos, meaning 'tongue', and and the name of the genus Thelepus Leuckart, 1849, type of the subfamily Thelepodinae Hessle, 1917, to which the new genus was assigned, and refers to the expanded glandular tentacular lobe. [details]