Polychaeta name details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1979). Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland im Süden). Teil 2. IN: Hartmann-Schröder, G. and Gerd Hartmann. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonder Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. (Teil 2 und Teil 3). <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 76: 77-218. page(s): 112 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf page(s): 199 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Etymology The name of the genus is composed by the Latin prefix with Greek origin odonto-, maning 'toothed', and the name of the genus Autolytus, with which it was supposed to be related, and refers to the presence of twelve teeth (six ventral and six dorsal) in the anterior region of the pharynx. [details]
Taxonomy The genus was originally described in the subfamily Autolytinae Langerhans, 1879, and was later synonymized with Odontosyllis by Nygren (2004: 199), in the subfamily Eusyllinae Malaquin, 1893. This synonymy was later confirmed by San Martín & Hutchings (2006). [details]
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