original description
Greeff, R. (1869). Untersuchungen über einige merkwürdige Thiergruppen des Arthropoden- und Wurm-Typus. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 35(1): 71-121., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7058414 [details]
taxonomy source
Zelinka, K. (1928). Monographie der Echinodera. <em>Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 1-396, plates I-XXVII.
note: Description of Greeff (1869) reproduced, diagnosis given. [details] Available for editors
additional source
Neuhaus, B. (2013). 5. Kinorhyncha (= Echinodera). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 1: Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin,. pp. 181-348. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110272536.181 [details] Available for editors
status source
Higgins, R. P. (1966). Faunistic studies in the Red Sea (in winter, 1961-1962), Part II: Kinorhynchs from the area of Al-Ghardaqa. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere.</em> 93: 118-126.
note: Higgins 1966a, p. 123:species regarded as nomen dubium. [details] Available for editors
Syntype uncatalogued, geounit North Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology [The name of the species was derived from Latin borealis, northern, and referred to the original description of the species from a location in the North Sea.] [details]
Taxonomy Higgins 1983: pp. 37, 41, species indeterminata [details]