Deep-Sea name details
Dasychone Sars, 1862
155467 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155467)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Genus
- Species Dasychone bombyx (Dalyell, 1853) accepted as Branchiomma bombyx (Dalyell, 1853) (Subsequent combination)
- Species Dasychone lucullana (Delle Chiaje, 1828) accepted as Branchiomma lucullanum (Delle Chiaje, 1828) (superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Sars, M. (1862). Foredrag om de ved Norges Kyster forekommende Arter af den Linnéiske Annelideslægt Sabella. <em>Forhandliger I Videnskabs Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1861: 116-133.
page(s): 118 [details]
page(s): 118 [details]
Note No type designated? Sars (1862) described two...
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Type species No type designated? Sars (1862) described two new species, Dasychone argus and Dasychone decora (the latter first in page priority), both now in Branchiomma. Possibly no one has subsequently designated a type species. Hartman (1959) did not in her catalogue, and placed all species in Branchiomma. She presumably followed the much earlier synonymy of Johansson (1927: 158) [details]
Etymology Unusually for the time Sars (1862: 118) gave a full derivation of the etymology from Greek words dasy, meaning hairy, and...
Etymology Unusually for the time Sars (1862: 118) gave a full derivation of the etymology from Greek words dasy, meaning hairy, and chone, meaning funnel. Chone is a feminine form of the word, although Brown (1954) also gives 'choanos' as a masculine form. Sars appears to treat the gender as feminine. McIntosh (1923: 273) in a footnote repeats the etymology (from the Greek for 'hairy funnel'), but does not attribute it to Sars [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Dasychone Sars, 1862. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155467 on 2026-06-09
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Dasychone Sars, 1862. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155467 on 2026-06-09
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Sars, M. (1862). Foredrag om de ved Norges Kyster forekommende Arter af den Linnéiske Annelideslægt Sabella. <em>Forhandliger I Videnskabs Selskabet i Christiania.</em> 1861: 116-133.
page(s): 118 [details]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631
page(s): 402-403 [details]
additional source McIntosh, W.C. 1923. A monograph of the British marine annelids. Polychaeta, Sabellidae to Serpulidae. With additions to the British marine Polychaeta during the publication of the monograph. Ray Society of London, 4(2): 251-538.
page(s): 273; note: genus diagnosis, and lengthy description of Dayschone argus [details]
source of synonymy Johansson, Karl Eric. (1927). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Polychaeten-Familien Hermellidae Sabellidae und Serpulidae. [inaugural-dissertation]. <em>Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala.</em> 11: 1-184.
page(s): 158; note: to Branchiomma [details]
page(s): 118 [details]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631
page(s): 402-403 [details]
additional source McIntosh, W.C. 1923. A monograph of the British marine annelids. Polychaeta, Sabellidae to Serpulidae. With additions to the British marine Polychaeta during the publication of the monograph. Ray Society of London, 4(2): 251-538.
page(s): 273; note: genus diagnosis, and lengthy description of Dayschone argus [details]
source of synonymy Johansson, Karl Eric. (1927). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Polychaeten-Familien Hermellidae Sabellidae und Serpulidae. [inaugural-dissertation]. <em>Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala.</em> 11: 1-184.
page(s): 158; note: to Branchiomma [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology Unusually for the time Sars (1862: 118) gave a full derivation of the etymology from Greek words dasy, meaning hairy, and chone, meaning funnel. Chone is a feminine form of the word, although Brown (1954) also gives 'choanos' as a masculine form. Sars appears to treat the gender as feminine. McIntosh (1923: 273) in a footnote repeats the etymology (from the Greek for 'hairy funnel'), but does not attribute it to Sars [details]Grammatical gender Sars and others following him appeared to treat the genus gender as feminine, which fits the genus etymology. While one of Sars new taxa was Dasychone argus, where argus is a noun in apposition, the name of a 'hundred-eyed guardian of Io', the other species was Dasychone decora, using the adjectival feminine of decoratus -a -um, meaning adorned or beautiful. [details]
Synonymy Genus name Dasychone continued to be used by biologists into the 1970s and even 1980s, although Johansson (1927) had long since synonymized it with Branchiomma, and the synonymy had been followed in the Hartman catalogue of 1959. [details]
Type species No type designated? Sars (1862) described two new species, Dasychone argus and Dasychone decora (the latter first in page priority), both now in Branchiomma. Possibly no one has subsequently designated a type species. Hartman (1959) did not in her catalogue, and placed all species in Branchiomma. She presumably followed the much earlier synonymy of Johansson (1927: 158) [details]
