Polychaeta name details
original description
Sun, Yue; Yu, Lei; Li, Xinzheng. (2021). A new species and a new species record of Orbiniidae Hartman, 1942 (Annelida, Polychaeta) from China. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1068: 1-11., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/71925/list/9/ page(s): 3, figures 1-3; note: northern Yellow Sea, China [details]
Holotype MBMCAS MBM286984, geounit Yellow Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology authors: Phylo heterochaetus "is named for the thoracic neuropodia with two kinds of uncini" [details]
Spelling Mandatory gender agreement requires a spelling of the adjectival compound word as 'heterochaeta' rather than 'heterochaetus' to agree with feminine genus Phylo. There are numerous compound species names based on chaeta, and an example masculine to feminine recombination change in Polychaeta is 'Cirratulus anchylochaetus Schmarda, 1861 accepted as Timarete anchylochaeta (Schmarda,1861). An example in the other direction is the annelid Perichaeta heterochaeta Michaelsen, 1891 accepted as Amynthas heterochaetus (Michaelsen, 1891). Note that here the original genus based on 'chaeta' was feminine. [details]
Type locality northern Yellow Sea, China, 38.75, 123.5 (38 45'N, 123 30'E), 64 m [details]
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