WoRMS name details
original description
Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358 page(s): 52 + insert on page 48 [details]
source of synonymy
Ehlers, E. H. (1868). Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. <em>Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 2: 269-748, plates XII-XXIV., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1985162 page(s): 450; note: with Nereis Linnaeus, 1758 [details]
source of synonymy
Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1874). Die Familie der Lycorideen und die Aufstellung von Gruppen in der Gattung <i>Nereis</i>. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur, Breslau.</em> 51 [1874 for 1873]: 56-72., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38492044 page(s): 69; note: with Platynereis Kinberg, 1865 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Malmgren (1867: 52): "Tentacula longitudinem lobi cephalici aequantia. Palpi cylindrici articulo terminale ovato magno, longitudinem lobi cephalici superantes. Cirri tentaculares sat longi filiformes, longissimi latitudinem corporis ter quaterve aequantes. Oculi magni, antici ovales majores quam postici subrotundati. Maxillae tota acie 12—13 dentata, apice nigrescente paullum tortae versus basin pellucidae. Paragnathi coadnati pectines minutos formantes, ita dispositos ut in nostra fig. 25 A. Lingulae rami superioris conicae acuminatae segmentis 5—9 exceptis lingulis brevibus crassis rotundatis obtusis praeditis. Cirri dorsuales lingulam supremam bis, in segmentis posticis ter aequantes. Cirri ventrales lingula infima paullum breviores. Color in spiritu albidus vei fulvo-flavescens. Longit. in albis speciminibus ovulis impletis 50—60 m.m., latit. 5—6 m.m. cum pedibus sine setis; saepissime multo minor colore fulvo. Mire polymorpha species." [details]
Etymology "Λεοντίς, ή, nom. propr." (Malmgren, 1867: footnote on 52). Further details concerning the etymology are unknown. [details]
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