WoRMS name details
original description
Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350 page(s): 310 + unnumbered table facing page 281 [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): 650 [details]
additional source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source
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
Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
source of synonymy
Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
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Etymology Grube gives no etymology or even diagnosis for Autolytus. However, Grube genera names tended to be descriptive Latin rather than names from mythology or names honoring other biologists. The closest mythological name is Autolycus from Homer's Oddssey, but it was already used at the time in Coleotera (insecta). So, taken literally, the generic name Autolytus is composed from the Latin prefix auto-, meaning 'self', and the Greek word lytos, meaning 'capable of being unfastened or dissolved', and seems to refer to the schizogamus reproduction by gemmiparity present in the group. [details]
Grammatical gender Masculine. Subsequent authors have, with two exceptions, considered Autolytus as a masculine form. However, Grube (1850) himself did not change the feminine Nereis prolifera of the type species original name to Autolytus prolifer as he perhaps should have done. The word 'prolifer a um' is a new latin adjective meaning fruitful or productive according to Brown (1954) [details]
Taxonomy Nygren (2004: 115), in his revision of the subfamily Autolytinae considered the genus Autolytus Grube, 1850 as a junior synonym of Myrianida Milne Edwards, 1845. However, some species remained within the genus Autolytus due to their uncertain taxonomic position, being considered as "incertae sedis". [details]Unverified
Remark Type species Nereis prolifera O. F. Muller 1788 in Fauchald, 1977<246>. [details]
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