Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv page(s): 385; note: erected for Ophelina brasiliensis Hansen, 1882, though a formal new combination was not published [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Chamberlin (1919: 385) commented that "a considerable number of the genera in this family [Opheliidae] are very imperfectly known." Ironically Chamberlin contributed his own poorly circumscribed new opheliid genera, including Antiobactrum on the very same page for Ophelina brasiliensis Hansen. Sene Silva (2007: 9) suggested that Ophelina brasiliensis was a synonym of Ophelina acuminata, the type taxon of Ophelina, which would make Antiobactrum a synonym of Ophelina [details]
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