Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1965). Zur Kenntnis des Sublitorals der chilenischen Küste unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. II Die Polychaeten des Sublitorals. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 62 Supplement: 59-305. page(s): 231 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Hartmann-Schröder (1965: 231): ''Körperform ähnlich wie bei Scalibregma. Prostomium T-förmig, mi zwei frontalen Hörnern. Buccalsegment borstenlos. Segmente bis auf vordere dreiringlig. Keine Kiemen. Parapodien in wenigen vorderen und hinteren Segmenten höckerförmig, in der Körpermitte mit langen, fingerförmigen, postsetalen Lamellen. Lateralorgane? Einfache kapillare und gabelförmige Borsten vorhanden. Keine großen, aciculaförmigen Borsten. Analcirren papillenförmig.'' [details]
Diagnosis Diagnosis from Fauchald (1977): Body elongated, prostomium T-shaped. One asetigerous segment present. Branchiae absent. Parapodia with long, slender postsetal lobes in median and posterior setigers. Acicular setae absent, furcate and capillary setae present. [details]
Etymology Scalibregmides is formed by the name of the genus Scalibregma Rathke, 1843, followed by the Greek suffix -ides, a suffix of source or origin, and presumably makes reference to the morphological similarities between the two taxa. [details]
Grammatical gender The ICZN Code article 30.1.4.4 specifies that an '-ides' ending in a genus name makes the genus masculine unless the author(s) constructed the species group name so as to indicate they intended another gender. Therefore Scalibregmides is masculine although the type species is Scalibregmides chilensis which could be either masculine or feminine. The only other species in the genus is Scalibregmides peruanus Blake, 1981 which appears to have been correctly constructed as masculine. [details]
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