WoRMS name details
original description
Claparède, Édouard. (1864). Glanures zootomiques parmi les annélides de Port-Vendres (Pyrénées Orientales). <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 17(2): 463-600, plates I-VIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1972 page(s): 553-554, plate VI fig. 5 [details]
basis of record
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ page(s): 648 [details]
new combination reference
Musco, Luigi (look up in IMIS) [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Not stated, unknown. Probably shallow water. [details]
Distribution Mediterranean Sea, France, Port-Vendres. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet torulosa derives from the Latin word torulus, diminuitive of torus, meaning 'protuberance' or 'swelling', and the suffix -osus in the feminine form, -osa, which added to a noun forms an adjective indicating an abundance of that noun, and refers to the great development of the palps of the species: "Ce nom fait allusion au grand développement des lobes ou tores frontaux" (Claparède, 1874: 553). [details]
Habitat Not stated, unknown. [details]
Specimen Types not retained. [details]
Taxonomy From the examination of Claparède's 1864 drawings, reproduced in Fauvel (1923), the species may be ascribed to Exogone subg. Exogone. [details]
Type locality Port-Vendres, France, Mediterranean Sea (gazetteer estimate 42.519º, 03.109º).
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