Polychaeta name details
original description
Eliason, Anders. (1962). Die Polychaeten der Skagerak-Expedition 1933. <em>Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala.</em> 33: 207-293 (text figures only). page(s): 232-234; note: a joint genus plus species description for Pseudeulalia exigua [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
source of synonymy
Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. <em>2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2.</em> 648 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Pleijel, Fredrik. (1991). Phylogeny and classification of the Phyllodocidae (Polychaeta). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 20(3): 225-261., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1991.tb00289.x page(s): 243-246, 260 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology The name of the genus Pseudeulalia is composed by the Greek prefix pseudo-, meaning 'false' or 'fake', and the name of the genus Eulalia Savigny, 1822, and according to the author refers to the resemblance of the new genus with Eulalia, especially with E. bilineata, from which differs mainly by the lack of a median antenna: ''Obgleich die vorhandenen Exemplare in so vielen Beziehungen an Eulalia bilineata erinnern, habe ich es für geeignet erachtet, für sie eine neue Art aufzustellen, hauptsächlich, weil sämtliche keine unpaare Antenne haben. Es dürfte dann nötig sein, für diese Art eine neue Gattung zu errichten, Pseudeulalia, die sich von Eulalia nur durch das Fehlen einer unpaaren Antenne unterscheidet'' (Eliason, 1962: 234). [details]
Taxonomy Pleijel (1991:245) refers that the main difference between Pseudeulalia and Protomystides Czerniavsky, 1882 is that Pseudeulalia exigua is provided with cylindrical ventral tentacular cirri on segment 2, whereas these are flattened in Protomystides. The author tentatively synonymizes the two genera, pending further information. Hartmann-Schröder (1996: 123) considered the two genera as synonymous. [details]
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