WoRMS name details
Exogene [auct. misspelling for 'Exogone']
955810 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:955810)
unaccepted (lapsus calami)
Genus
marine
Not documented
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Exogene [auct. misspelling for 'Exogone']. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=955810 on 2024-03-28
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basis of record
Schultze, M. (1853). Über Chaetonotus und Ichthydium (Ehrb.) und eine neue verwandte Gattung Turbanella. <em>Müller's Arch. Anat. Physiol.</em> 6: 241-254., available online at http://www.gastrotricha.unimore.it/file-PDF/Schultze_1853.pdf
page(s): 251; note: lapsus for intended Exogone pusilla in an article not on Annelida [details]
page(s): 251; note: lapsus for intended Exogone pusilla in an article not on Annelida [details]
From editor or global species database
Spelling recorded in Nomenclator Zoologicus as first authored by Schultze (1853), although it would have been better ignored as the usage is in text flow in a work not on Polychaeta taxonomy. Other such mistaken instances exist, perhaps influenced by the common word 'exogenous'. Hartman catalogue (1959: records 'Exogene' as one of three variant spellings where 'Exogone' was intended. [details]