African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

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Pycnoderma Grube, 1877

AphiaID

326009 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326009)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Pycnoderma congoense Grube, 1877 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Flabelligeridae de Saint-Joseph, 1894

Original name

Pycnoderma Grube, 1877

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Species Pycnoderma congoense Grube, 1877
Species Pycnoderma dannyi Salazar-Vallejo, 2011
Species Pycnoderma escobarae Salazar-Vallejo, 2011
Species Pycnoderma ferruginea (Gallardo, 1968)
Species Pycnoderma glabra (Treadwell, 1901)
Species Pycnoderma glasbyi Salazar-Vallejo, 2011
Species Pycnoderma gracilis (Hartman, 1961)
Species Pycnoderma talehsapensis (Fauvel, 1932)
Species Pycnoderma fernandense Augener, 1918 accepted as Trophoniella fernandensis (Augener, 1918) (subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Grammatical gender

neuter

Original description

Grube, A. E. (1877). Anneliden - Ausbeute S.M.S. Gazelle. Monatsbericht der Koniglich Preussischer Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 509-554., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35723826
page(s): 540 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pycnoderma Grube, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=326009 on 2025-05-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-14 12:50:56Z

created

Fauchald, Kristian

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2011-01-30 01:31:46Z

changed

Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio

2023-02-07 16:46:53Z

changed

Gil, João

2023-11-26 04:05:45Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Grube, A. E. (1877). Anneliden - Ausbeute S.M.S. Gazelle. Monatsbericht der Koniglich Preussischer Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 509-554., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35723826
page(s): 540 [details]

Taxonomy

redescription Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2011). Revision of Piromis Kinberg, 1867 and Pycnoderma Grube, 1877 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae). Zootaxa. 2819(1): 1-50., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2819.1.1
page(s): 30 [details] Available for editors

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Grammatical gender Pycnoderma is neuter, as derma is neuter, hence Grube (1877) used the neuter suffix for the type species, Pycnoderma congoense. [details]

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