original description
Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 397; note: There is no diagnosis, and no usage, with the genus only characterised in a key, and Stylarioides collarifer Ehlers, 1887 as the type species [details]
taxonomy source
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2013). Revision of <i>Therochaeta</i> Chamberlin, 1919 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae). <em>Zoosystema.</em> 35(2): 227-263., available online at http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/35/2/revision-du-genre-therochaeta-chamberlin-1919-polychaeta-flabelligeridae
note: revision [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Chamberlin's (1919: 397) key couplet was "Crochets on certain somites (in the genotype V-VIII) composite. [Body] Conspicuously constricted between the second and third setigerous somites."
Salazar-Vallejo (2013) updated the diagnosis as "Body swollen or tapered, often constricted between chaetigers 2 and 3. Chaetiger 2 elongated; chaetiger 3 with a transverse band of long papillae. Anterior margin of chaetiger 1 with a dorsal lobe. Cephalic cage made by chaetigers 1-2. Tunic generally covered with sediment grains. Chaetigers 5-7 with pseudocompound neurohooks; posterior neurohooks blunt. Four or many pairs of cirriform branchiae, sessile on a low branchial plate." [details]
Etymology Chamberlin (1919) derives Therochaeta from two Greek words meaning 'hinge/articulation' and 'chaeta' [details]