WoRMS name details
original description
Augener, Hermann. (1918). Polychaeta. <em>Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas.</em> 2(2): 67-625, plates II-VII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7172280 page(s): 119; note: Polyodontidae used without explanation when reporting a Polyodontes and a Eupanthalis species [details]
additional source
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
Pettibone, Marian H. 1989. Revision of the aphroditoid polychaetes of the family Acoetidae Kinberg (=Polyodontidae Augener) and reestablishment of Acoetes Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832, and Euarche Ehlers,1887. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 464: 1-138., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.464 page(s): 6 [details] Available for editors [request]
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From editor or global species database
Homonymy Polyodontidae was in widespread use (eg Hartman catalogue) until Pettibone (1989) determined that "Acoetidae Kinberg, 1856, based on Acoetes Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832, has priority and is not preoccupied, whereas Polyodontidae Augener, 1918, based on Polyodontes Renieri in Blainville, 1828, is preoccupied in Fishes by Polyodontidae Bonaparte, 1837, based on Polydon Schneider, 1801." [details]
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