original description
Pettibone, M. H. (1985). An additional new scale worm (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from the hydrothermal rift area off western Mexico at 21 N. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 98(1): 150-157.
page(s): 150-151 [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source
Bonifácio, Paulo; Menot, Lénaïck. (2018). New genera and species from the Equatorial Pacific provide phylogenetic insights into deep-sea Polynoidae (Annelida). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 185(3): 555-635 [published online 14 November 2018; printed publication 27 February 2019]., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/185/3/555/5181329
page(s): 22-23; note: assignment to Macellicephalinae [details] Available for editors
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status source
Hatch, A. S.; Liew, H.; Hourdez, S.; Rouse, G. W. (2020). Hungry scale worms: Phylogenetics of Peinaleopolynoe (Polynoidae, Annelida), with four new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 932: 27-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.932.48532
page(s): 44-46; note: assignment to Lepidonotopodinae [details]
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Etymology Branchi, from branchia (Greek) gills, plus plicatus, from plicatus (Latin) fold, referrig to the unusual type of folded branchiae [details]