WoRMS name details
original description
Treadwell, A.L. (1917). Polychaetous annelids from Florida, Porto Rico, Bermuda and the Bahamas. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 251: 255-272, plates 1-3., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1872030 page(s): 268, plate 3, figures 24-27; note: Nassau, Bahamas. Genus misspelled as 'metalonome' for correct 'metalaonome' [details]
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1956). Polychaetous annelids erected by Treadwell, 1891 to 1948, together with a brief chronology. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 109(2): 239-310., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1145 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Knight-Jones, Phyllis; Perkins, Thomas H. (1998). A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 123: 385-467., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb01370.x page(s): 433 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated. Treadwell describes the 'very dark brown' of the base of the crown as preserved in alcohol, and we can assume he named the species after this character, although he did not know the colour in life. [details]
Spelling Treadwell (1917:268) misspelled the genus as "Metalonome" (misspelling also noted by Knight-Jones & Perkins (1998)) [details]
Type locality Nassau, Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, collected by Whitheld [details]From other sources
Specimen American Museum of Natural History, New York [details]
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