WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Pettibone, Marian H. (1976). Revision of the genus <i>Macellicephala</i> McIntosh and the subfamily Macellicephalinae Hartmann-Schröder (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 229: 1-71., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.229 page(s): 62 [details] Available for editors [request]
Taxonomytaxonomy source
Pettibone, Marian H. (1994). Additional records of polynoid polychaetes from the Juan de Fuca Ridge. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 107(4): 609-614. page(s): 609; note: transfer to Macellicephalinae from Polynoinae (as Harmothoinae). The genus is misspelled as 'Bathylevensteinia' [details]
Otheradditional source
Bonifácio, Paulo; Menot, Lénaïck. (2018). New genera and species from the Equatorial Pacific provide phylogenetic insights into deep-sea Polynoidae (Annelida). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 185(3): 555-635 [published online 14 November 2018; printed publication 27 February 2019]., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/185/3/555/5181329 page(s): 22-23 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology named for Dr. Raisa Levenstein [details]
Grammatical gender stated to be feminine (Raisa Levenstein is female) [details]
Spelling Was recorded in WoRMS as 'Bathylevensteinia'. This was incorrect, and Bathylevensteina is the original spelling (corrected September 2016). Pettibone (1994: 609) misspelled the genus as 'Bathylevensteinia' when she transferred it to Macellicephalinae. [details]
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