WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Mörch, O. A. L. (1863). Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift København.</em> Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft page(s): 442 [details]
Taxonomy
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology Not stated. 'Poma' is a neuter Greek noun for a lid (operculum) and 'phragma' is a neuter Greek noun for a hedge or fence. Thus probably Phragmatopoma is named for a fence-like operculum in the form of the tightly arrayed paleal spines. The genus should be neuter but Mörch used a feminine ending for Phragmatopoma caudata. [details]
Grammatical gender In practice Phragmatopoma has been treated as feminine although probably it should have been regarded as neuter. A compound noun derived from two neuter nouns should be neuter, but Mörch and three others subsequently used feminine ending species names. Kirtley (1994:26) stated the genus was feminine, but did not explain the reasoning for his statement. [details]
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