original description
(of Macellicephala macrophthalma Fauvel, 1913) Fauvel, Pierre. (1913). Quatrième note préliminaire sur les polychètes provenant des campagnes de l'<i>Hirondelle</i> et de la <i>Princesse-Alice</i>, ou déposées dans le Musée Océanographique de Monaco. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco.</em> 270: 1-80., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46001399
page(s): 9-10, figure 4.A-C [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Budaeva N.E., Jirkov I.A., Savilova T.A., Paterson G.L.J. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Polychaeta. <i>Invertebrate Zoology</i>. Vol.11. No.1: 217–230 [in English]. [details] Available for editors
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basis of record
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]
From editor or global species database
Status As noted by Pettibone (1976: 67) Fauvel illustrated and stated that the median antenna of Macellicephala macrophthalma Fauvel, 1913 was broken, not absent (contra Hartmann-Schröder, 1974). Known from a single specimen in poor condition; the cylindrical ("Hesionid-like") body, 29 segments and 13 pairs of elytra (Fauvel, 1913: 9-10, figure 4) are unlike any Macellicephalinae. Insufficiently known to place in a subfamily and here considered taxon inquirendum [details]From other sources
Status doubtful polynoid species (cf. Pettibone 1976) (R. Barnich) [details]