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original descriptionEhlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338 page(s): 208 [details]
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additional sourceJirkov, I. A. and Leontovich, M. K. (2013). Identification keys for Terebellomorpha (Polychaeta) of the eastern Atlantic and the North Polar basin. <em>Invertebrate Zoology [aka Zoologiya Bespozvonochnykh].</em> 10 (2): 217 - 243., available online athttp://www.nature.air.ru/invertebrates/10_2/invert10_2_217_243%20_irkov.pdf page(s): 228; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details] Available for editors
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