Polychaeta name details
original description
Lamarck, J.B. (1818). [volume 5 of] Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres, préséntant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; precedes d'une Introduction offrant la determination des caracteres essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du vegetal et desautres corps naturels, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. <em>Paris, Deterville.</em> vol 5: 612 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879 page(s): 370; note: Tasmania. Vernacular name in French as 'Vermilia rubanee' [details]
additional source
Chenu J.C. (1842-1854). Illustrations conchyliologiques, ou description et figures de toutes les coquilles connues, vivantes et fossiles. Paris. 85 parts in 4 volumes. [details]
status source
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. page(s): 608; note: referred to Placostegus as P. taeniatus [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Lamarck refers to page 44 of Daudin (1800) which has Vermetus indicus Daudin, but it is not obvious why. Vermetus indicus is from the Indian Ocean and is regarded as an indeterminable serpulid. [details]
Etymology Not stated but taenia (Latin from Greek) means ribbon, band, stripe, thus it seems the species was named adjectively (as striped or banded) for the (reddish-violet) coloured band on the shell that Lamarck records in his brief Latin description. There are many species names based on 'taeniatus' [details]
Taxonomy Questionably attributed to the genus Placostegus by Hartman (1959), Lamarck's taxon is regarded to belong to the genus Pomatoceros [now Spirobranchus] (Zibrowius, pers.comm.) [details]From other sources
Taxonomy Genus uncertain [details]
Type locality Australia, Tasmania [details]
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