Polychaeta taxon details
original description
McIntosh, W.C. [as M'Intosh]. (1885). Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 12 (part 34): i-xxxvi, 1-554, pl. 1-55, 1A-39A, & Annelida stations map., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50688426 page(s): 372 [details]
redescription
Salazar-Vallejo, S.I. & A.E. Zhadan. 2007. Revision of Buskiella McIntosh, 1885 (including Flota Hartman, 1967), and description of its trifid organ (Polychaeta: Flotidae). Invertebrate Zoology 4:65-82 page(s): 69; note: redescription and designation of a lectotype [details] Available for editors [request]
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Etymology author: "Named after G. Busk, Esq, F.R.S., one of the most devoted and most exact of living zoologists." George Busk was a medical doctor (as was McIntosh), who later became a naturalist, specializing in bryozoa and in vertebrate palaeontology. The '-ellus -a -um' suffix is a diminutive, here given a feminine ending. The species-group name 'abyssorum' is a genitve plural of the noun abyss, thus 'of the abysses'. McIntosh had already named a holothurian species, Labidoplax buskii, after Busk, using the more usual noun in the genitive. [details]
Grammatical gender Feminine. Although named after Busk who was a male, the genus is nevertheless feminine as McIntosh gave it a feminine suffix (article 30.2.4). [details]
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