Polychaeta name details
original description
Hutchings, Patricia A.; Murray, Anna. (1984). Taxonomy of polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> Supplement 3: 1-118., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0812-7387.3.1984.101 page(s): 75 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Santos, Cinthya S.G.; Nonato, Edmundo F.; and Petersen, Mary E. 2004. Two new species of Opheliidae (Annelida: Polychaeta): Euzonus papillatus sp. n. from a northeastern Brazilian sandy beach and Euzonus mammillatus sp. n. from the continental shelf of southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa, 478, 31:1-12, available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.478.1.1 page(s): 10-11; note: as Euzonus [details]
source of synonymy
Blake, James A. (2011). Revalidation of the genus Thoracophelia Ehlers, 1897, replacing Euzonus Grube, 1866 (Polychaeta: Opheliidae), junior homonym of Euzonus Menge, 1854 (Arthropoda: Diplopoda), together with a literature summary and updated listing of Thoracophelia species. Zootaxa, 2807: 65-68 page(s): 66; note: as Thoracophelia [details]
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Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Hutchings & Murray (1984: 75): ''Fusiform body with ventral groove running along either entire or most of body. Pointed prostomium. Body consists of anterior abranchiate setigers, followed by numerous branchiate setigers and posterior abranchiate setigers. Branchiae digitiform, bifid. Eye spots absent. Parapodia poorly developed with capillary noto- and neurosetae. Anterior and posterior setigers with elongated capillary setae. Anterior setigers often inflated; lateral fold developed on at least one anterior segment. Pygidial funnel with numerous marginal papillae.'' [details]
Etymology The generic name is composed by the Ancient Greek noun lobos, meaning 'lobe', and the Ancient Greek noun skhesis or schesis, meaning 'state', 'condition', or 'attitude', and refers to the presence of anterior lateral folds in the members of the genus. [details]
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