WoRMS taxon details
original description
Martínez, Alejandro; Di Domenico, Maikon; Rouse, Greg W.; Worsaae, Katrine. (2015). Phylogeny and systematics of Protodrilidae (Annelida) inferred with total evidence analyses. <em>Cladistics.</em> 31(3): 250–276., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12089 page(s): 270 [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Authors: "derived from Latin “meion”, meaning less or smaller, and “drilus”, meaning worm, referring to the smaller size of the species in the genus" [details]
Grammatical gender Not stated, but assumed intended masculine as one recombination retains its masculine gender ending [details]
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