Polychaeta name details
original description
Claparède, Édouard. (1869). Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Seconde partie. Ordre II<sup>me</sup>. Annélides Sédentaires (Aud. et Edw.). <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 20(1): 1-225, plates XVII-XXXI., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14264110 page(s): 64-65, plate XXIII fig. 2 [details]
taxonomy source
Mesnil, F. (1896). Études de morphologie externe chez les Annélides. I. Les Spionidiens des côtes de la Manche. <em>Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> 29: 110-287, plates VII-XV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10726590 [details]
additional source
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
Dewarumez, Jean-Marie (look up in IMIS) [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Not stated in the original description. [details]
Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Claparède (1869: 64): "Corpus longitudine 11mm, latitudine 0mm,5, segmentis circa 36, depressum, lobo cephalico antennis destituto. Tentacula vittis annularibus flavo-fuscis insignia. Branchiae lobo foliaceo, destitutae, primi paris obsoletae." [details]
Distribution Mediterranean Sea: Gulf of Naples. [details]
Etymology "Je dédie cette espèce à M. Elias Mecznikow, qui fut le premier à la rencontrer et a découvrir chez elle de très-curieux spermatophores, que nous espérons décrire plus tard dans un travail commun sur l'embryogénie des Annélides" (Claparède, 1869: 64). Claparède created the adjectival form mecznikowianus (suffix -ianus, meaning of Mecznikow) but he retained the masculine ending of -us for a male personal name. He should have used 'mecznikowiana' for adjectival agreement with the feminine genus Spio [details]
Habitat Not stated in the original description. [details]
Spelling Original name is a misspelling. Claparède should have used 'mecznikowiana' for agreement with the feminine genus Spio, as he used the Latinization -ianus with a personal-name noun which converts it to an adjective requiring agreement of the suffix with the genus gender. The name is not changed here as there are no literature usages under Spio of ''mecznikowiana'. However, see Microspio mecznikowiana. [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus. [details]
Type locality Gulf of Naples, Italy, Mediterranean Sea (gazetteer estimate 40.7°, 14.25°). [details]
Type material Types not retained. [details]
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