WoRMS taxon details
original description
Benham, William B. (1916). Report on the Polychaeta obtained by the F.I.S. ''Endeavour'' on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. Part II. <em>Fisheries: Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. ''Endeavour'', 1909-14.</em> H.C. Dannevig. Sydney. 4(2): 127-162, plates XLVI-XLVIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5916746 page(s): 138 [details]
basis of record
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Benham (1916: 138): ''The peristomium is produced laterally and ventrally to form a large, widely extending, collar-like lip (Cheilos = lip); the base of the notopodium is raised into a lamelliform expansion exceeding in height the rest of the parapodium throughout the greater part of the body.'' [details]
Etymology Cheilonereis is composed by the Greek noun cheilos, meaning 'lip', and the name of the genus Nereis Linnaeus, 1758, type genus of the family, and refers to the shape of the prostomium, which ''is produced laterally and ventrally to form a large, widely extending, collar-like lip'' (Benham, 1916: 138). [details]
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