Quatrefages (1866: 16) saw a similarity to Gnathosyllis of Schmarda (now Syllis) and placed Prionognathus in the ... [details]

Not stated in the original description. [details]

Not stated in the original description, probably intertidal to shallow subtidal (stated to have been found amongst ... [details]

Upper intertidal, in a zone submerged only 3-4 hours a day. [details]

Not stated by the author. Probably intertidal to shallow depths. [details]

Original diagnosis by Quatrefages (1866: 288): "Tête portant 5 très-petites antennes et des yeux peu distincts. ... [details]

Original diagnosis by Quatrefages (1866: 374-375): "Tête, cirrhes, corps, pieds et soies de Térébelles. ... [details]

Original diagnosis by Quatrefages (1866: 55): "Tête et anneau buccal confondus, portant 7 antennes ou tentacules ... [details]

Atlantic Ocean: English Channel. [details]

Atlantic Ocean: Chausey Islands (western France, English Channel).  [details]

Northeast Atlantic Ocean: English Channel (Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Normandy, France). [details]

Atlantic Ocean: shores of France (probably in the French Atlantic coast). [details]

Nereis phosphorescens appears to be a name invented by Quatrefages for "Syllis phosphorescens" a name later ... [details]

Currently lacking a source for a usage of this apparently incorrect gender spelling variant. [details]

For easier tracking and understanding it seems best to refer the Vermilia abbreviata subsequent combination back to ... [details]

Not known.  [details]

The genus is dedicated to René-Édouard Claparède (Chancy, 24 April 1832 - Siena, 31 May 1871), Swiss physician ... [details]

Not stated, but clearly for honoring the well-known biologist Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch (also seen as Mørch when ... [details]

Not stated in the original description. Orbinia is a female personal name from ancient Rome. For example a book on ... [details]

Not stated in the original description. The specific epithet setosa is a Latin adjective meaning 'bristly'or ... [details]

Not explicitly stated in the original description. The specific epithet chauseyana refers to the type locality of ... [details]

Not stated in the original description. The specific epithet elongatus means 'prolonged' or 'elongated' and is the ... [details]

Not stated by the author. The specific epithet pectoralis is a Latin word, either employed as a noun meaning ... [details]

Not stated. It is likely Vermilia mahoria is based on a little-used obsolete term, 'mahori', for members of the ... [details]

Feminine. Orbinia is a female personal name from ancient Rome. Where adjectival species epithets have been used in ... [details]

Assumed to be neuter from the Greek noun phragma (a fence or hedge), but as Quatrefages names were agreeing with ... [details]

Not stated in the original description. [details]

Amongst coralline tufts: "au milieu des touffes de corallines" (Quatrefages, 1866: 66). [details]

Type of sediment not stated, in the upper intertidal. [details]

Not stated by the author. [details]

Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (MNHN POLY TYPE 464).  [details]

Deposited at the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, (MNHN POLY TYPE 460. [details]

According to Nomenclator Zoologicus preceded by Codonytes delle Chiaje, 1828 (Bryozoa). However, Quatrefages was ... [details]

Senior homonym to the fossil ostracod Ehlersia in Kesling, Crafts, Darby, Shubak & Smith 1960 (Contr. Mus. Paleont. ... [details]

As noted by Mackie & Gobin (1993) Quatrefages used Johnstonia twice in two different families, first Nereididae, ... [details]

Polyphragma Quatrefages 1866 is the senior homonym to Polyphragma Reuss 1871 in Protista, and Polyphragma Alexander ... [details]

Delle Chiaje name perhaps a bryozoan, misapplied in Polychaeta.because of misreading of the Delle Chiaje caption ... [details]

Quatrefages erected this genus for Lumbricus marinus sensu Delle Chiaje, 1841 [details]

Erected for Phyllodoce macrophthalma Grube [nomen dubium fide Pleijel] and Phyllodoce longicirris Grube [details]

Hartman (1959) states Polyphragma was erected for Eupomatus uncinatus. However, two further species were included. ... [details]

The first appearance of this name seems to be in Savigny's 1822 annelid volumes of Description de l'Égypte (p.77). ... [details]

Quatrefage used "morchii" without an umlaut, and without an o slash. Also Morch was Danish, not German, thus ... [details]

invalid as a superfluous new spelling for Syllis sexoculata of Ehlers, 1864 [details]

Quatrefages used the incorrect subsequent spelling 'cirrata' for his species of Kefersteinia instead of 'cirrhata' [details]

record added to redirect to Kefersteinia cirrhata, as the misspelling is common, including in Hartman catalogue, p.187 [details]

Örsted (1843 & 1844) used Leucodorum coecum, a neuter construct (see separate record, Aphia 1423816), thus ... [details]

Petaloproctus terricola is the original spelling (mandatory emendation to 'terricolus'?) [details]

Quatrefages (1866:333) uses Pectinaria aegyptia as the combination, but indicates Edwards and Lamarck had used it ... [details]

This name has had few mentions and appears to have been overlooked in some major works. It is not indexed in ... [details]

Early checklists. Grube (1850: 336) has a checklist of Sabella species by 1850. Grube has short details of the ... [details]

Quatrefages (1866 p.533) placed Eupomatus pectinatus Philippi as the combination Vermilia pectinata, and clearly ... [details]

The genus Cirrosyllis was established in Hesionidae by Schmarda (1861), to include six new species: Cirrosyllis ... [details]

Bréhat (Île-de-Bréhat), Brittany, France (gazetteer estimate 48.85°, -2.99°), among Fucus mixed with sponges ... [details]

Indian Ocean (although Quatrefages places a question mark after his 'la mer des Indes') [details]

Guettary (probably Guéthary on Basque coast of France) [details]

Type specimen & locality data is attached to the entry for 'Jonhstonia clymenoide', an original misspelling. The ... [details]

San Sebastian, Bay of Biscay, in Spain near the French border, near lighthouse point, estimated geolocation ... [details]

Saint-Vaast-la-Hogue, Cotentin peninsula, Normandy coast, France, English Channel, Atlantic Ocean (gazetteer ... [details]

Mauritius, Indian Ocean [details]

Chausey Islands, off Normandy, western France, Atlantic Ocean (gazetteer estimate 48.88°, -1.81°). [details]

Saint-Vaast-la-Hogue, Cotentin peninsula, Normandy coast, France, English Channel, Atlantic Ocean (gazetteer ... [details]

North Sea, but Quatrefages' name is an unnecessary replacement name. [details]

Shores of France ("les côtes de France"; Quatrefages, 1866: 358), very likely in the Atlantic coast of France. [details]

New Zealand. No place name is mentioned. The specimen came to the Paris museum from the collections of Du ... [details]

Quatrefages (1866: 421) is either unaware of, or ignoring Bispira Krøyer, 1856, when he creates Distylia for 5 ... [details]

The type species of Odontosyllis is O. gibba Claparède, 1863 by monotypy. However, the type species is wrongly ... [details]

Quatrefages (1866) described both Phenacia setosa and P. terebelloides. It appears which of those is the type ... [details]