Deep-Sea taxon details
original description
Hartman, O.; Fauchald, K. (1971). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 6: 1-327., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3458 page(s): 125-126 [details]
taxonomy source
Blake, James A. (2025). New species and records of Scalibregmatidae (Annelida) from the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean, and adjacent seas. <em>Megataxa.</em> 16(1): 1–232., available online at https://mapress.com/mt/article/view/megataxa.16.1.1 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Body elongated; prostomium quadrangular with cirriform long lobes and nuchal organs. Dorsal and ventral cirri absent; smooth capillary setae in both rami, furcate setae in notopodia only. A muscular eversible pharynx present. [details]
Distribution Abyssal, North Atlantic [details]
Etymology -ella is a diminuitive suffix treated as feminine in the Code, for which reason Scalibregmella means a small sized scalibregmatid or Scalibregma. [details]
Grammatical gender Feminine. The Code (30.1.3) suggests the Latin dimunitive suffix -ella is to be treated as feminine when combined with Greek. As -bregma- is Greek therefore Scalibregmella is feminine. Hartman & Fauchald (1971: 125-126) give no guidance on the gender of their new genus, except they (correctly) combine it with a feminine adjective, antennata, with their type species name. [details]
Type species Scalibregmella antennata Hartman & Fauchald, 1971 [details]
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