Either Lamarck or Blainville. The earliest-found usage is that of Lamarck (1818) and also Neave (Nomenclator ... [details]

Oken infamously liked to invent new genera in his commentaries, and it appears he does so when Oken (1807: 1168) ... [details]

The context shows Blainville clearly was using Hesione splendida in Savigny (already published by Lamarck) as the ... [details]

The genus name Polyodontes derives from an unpublished manuscript name of Renier, introduced in synonymy by ... [details]

N. ebranchiata was tentatively suggested to be in Oenone by Savigny (1822). He wrote "OBSERVATION. La Nereis ... [details]

Original diagnosis by Blainville (1828: 493): ''Corps alongé, cylindrique, atténué aux extrémités, et composé ... [details]

Was recorded in WoRMS as "Cymospira bicornis Abildgaard, 1789 in Blainville, 1828" but the authorship is simply by ... [details]

Included in the three original taxa of new genus Lumbrineris, and Pettibone (1963: 257) designated it as the type ... [details]

Not stated. Blainville (1828) refers to an indistinct head and a 'Capitellum' is a neuter diminutive noun for a ... [details]

Not stated. As the type species was removed from the clitellate genus Nais, one can speculate the formulation ... [details]

Not stated. Presumably the generic name is composed by the name of the genus Nereis Linnaeus, 1758, the type of the ... [details]

Not stated in the original description. The name of the genus seems to be composed by the names of the genera ... [details]

Not stated. The generic named seems to be composed by the Greek words scole, meaning 'worm', and lepis, meaning ... [details]

Not stated in the original description. The generic name Scoloplos is from the Greek, a masculine word referring to ... [details]

apparently feminine as Blainville formulates the name as Capitella instead of the neuter Capitellum [details]

Feminine. Authors have consistently treated Lumbrineris as of feminine gender. Lumbrineris is apparently a fusion ... [details]

Feminine. Past authors treat the genus as feminine. If the second part of the name is based on Nereis, which is ... [details]

Junior homonym Hermione Blainville, 1828 is preoccupied by Hermione Meigen, 1800 (Diptera), and was replaced by ... [details]

Blainville (1825, vol. 34) recombines Hesione splendida of Savigny p.40 to Nereis splendida, but later (1828, ... [details]

Taxonomists in the 19thC often thought it was a good idea to replace the names previously used by others when they ... [details]

Replacement name "not Polynoe longissima Blainville, 1828" (Imajima & Hartman, 1964: 22). However this may be ... [details]

Blainville included three existing species in his Cymospira. These became C. gigantea [now Spirobranchus giganteus ... [details]

Lumbrineris scolopendrina (Blainville 1825) is one of the three names originally included in Lumbrineris by ... [details]

Blainville introduced this name in volume 34 of the Dictionary as "La N. éclatante; N. splendida, Nereis clava , ... [details]

Type species Lumbricus squamatus O.F. Müller 1776, by monotypy but Blainville misreported the name as L. ... [details]