WoRMS taxon details
original description
Grube, A.E. (1863). Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Sechster Beitrag. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 29: 37-69, and plates 4-6., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7071934 page(s): 50 [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]
additional source
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Body elongated, prostomium T-shaped; one asetigerous segment present. Branchiae absent; ventral cirri present on posterior setigers; dorsal cirri absent. Acicular spines, furcate and capillary setae present. [details]
Etymology The generic name is a composition of the words Sclero, 'hard', and Cheilus, 'lips' or 'rim'. Greek 'cheilos' is neuter, but Grube has made a masculine noun compound word as Sclerocheilus [details]
Type species Sclerocheilus minutus Grube, 1863 [details]
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