Polychaeta taxon details
original description
(of Eusclerocheilus bransfieldia Hartman, 1967) Hartman, Olga. (1967). Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 2: 1-387. page(s): 130-131, plate 39 figs. A-D [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source
Blake, James A. (2025). New species and records of Scalibregmatidae (Annelida) from the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean, and adjacent seas. <em>Megataxa.</em> 16(1): 1–232., available online at https://mapress.com/mt/article/view/megataxa.16.1.1 page(s): 124; note: Blake uses the spelling 'bransfieldium', but the original 'bransfieldia' is an unchanging noun. [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
new combination reference
Hartman, Olga. (1978). Polychaeta from the Weddell Sea quadrant, Antarctica. <em>Antarctic Research Series.</em> 26(4): 125-223., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118664599.ch4/summary page(s): 180-181, fig. 28a-c; note: from Eusclerocheilus to Pseudoscalibregma bransfieldia (note correct unchanged suffix) [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Blake, James A; Read, Geoffrey B. (2025). Scalibregmatidae (Annelida)—Mandatory species name emendations. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5693 (3): 447–450., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5693.3.10 page(s): 448; note: verifies Hartman's (1978) spelling of Pseudoscalibregma bransfieldia (unchanged noun as epithet) [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 412-659 m (Weddell Sea). [details]
Spelling See the original description note on the etymology of Eusclerocheilus bransfieldia Hartman, 1967 for an analysis on whether bransfieldia is a noun or an adjective. Blake & Read (2025) regarded bransfieldia as an unchanging noun. [details]
Unreviewed
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pseudoscalibregma bransfieldia USNM 58971 dorsal view)
Hosted externally, from synonym
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pseudoscalibregma bransfieldia USNM 58971 ventral view)
Hosted externally, from synonym
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