WoRMS taxon details
Tripolydora Woodwick, 1964
325195 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325195)
accepted
Genus
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Woodwick, Keith H. (1964). <i>Polydora</i> and related genera (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Eniwetok, Majuro, and Bikini Atolls, Marshall Islands. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 18(2): 146-159., available online at http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/5508
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Etymology Not stated in the original description. The name of the new genus is formed by the Latin prefix tri-, meaning 'three',...
Etymology Not stated in the original description. The name of the new genus is formed by the Latin prefix tri-, meaning 'three', followed by the name of the genus Polydora Bosc, 1802, referring presumably to the presence of tridentate hooded hooks in the new genus, a distinctive character concerning other polydorids. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Tripolydora Woodwick, 1964. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325195 on 2024-04-18
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original description
Woodwick, Keith H. (1964). <i>Polydora</i> and related genera (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Eniwetok, Majuro, and Bikini Atolls, Marshall Islands. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 18(2): 146-159., available online at http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/5508
page(s): 155 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 155 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Woodwick (1964: 155): "The fifth segment is modified as in Polydora, Pseudopolydora, and Boccardia. The general appearance of the worm and of the fifth segment indicates closer affinities with Pseudopolydora than with the other two genera. It differs from all three in that the neuropodial hooded hooks begin on Segment 9 and are tridentate. Branchiae are present on segments." [details]Etymology Not stated in the original description. The name of the new genus is formed by the Latin prefix tri-, meaning 'three', followed by the name of the genus Polydora Bosc, 1802, referring presumably to the presence of tridentate hooded hooks in the new genus, a distinctive character concerning other polydorids. [details]
