Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Pettibone, Marian H. 1985. Additional branchiate scale-worms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from Galapagos hydrothermal vent and rift-area off western Mexico at 21 N. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 98(2): 447-469. page(s): 449 [details]
original description
(of Opisthotrochopodus Pettibone, 1985) Pettibone, Marian H. 1985. Additional branchiate scale-worms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from Galapagos hydrothermal vent and rift-area off western Mexico at 21 N. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 98(2): 447-469. page(s): 459 [details]
taxonomy source
Hiley, A. S.; Mongiardino Koch, N.; Rouse, G. W. (2024). Phylogenetics of Lepidonotopodini (Macellicephalinae, Polynoidae, Annelida) and Comparative Mitogenomics of Shallow-Water vs. Deep-Sea Scaleworms (Aphroditiformia). <em>Biology.</em> 13(12): 979., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/13/12/979 page(s): 20; note: emended diagnosis [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source
Bonifácio, Paulo; Menot, Lénaïck. (2018). New genera and species from the Equatorial Pacific provide phylogenetic insights into deep-sea Polynoidae (Annelida). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 185(3): 555-635 [published online 14 November 2018; printed publication 27 February 2019]., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/185/3/555/5181329 page(s): 22-23; note: assignment to Macellicephalinae [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Hatch, A. S.; Liew, H.; Hourdez, S.; Rouse, G. W. (2020). Hungry scale worms: Phylogenetics of Peinaleopolynoe (Polynoidae, Annelida), with four new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 932: 27-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.932.48532 page(s): 44-46; note: assignment to Lepidonotopodinae [details] 
identification resource
Wu, Xuwen; Zhan, Zifeng; Xu, Kuidong. (2019). Two new and two rarely known species of Branchinotogluma (Annelida: Polynoidae) from deep-sea hydrothermal vents of the Manus Back-Arc basin, with remarks on the diversity and biogeography of vent polynoids. <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.</em> 149: 103051., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063718302280 page(s): 19 of 20; note: key to species. Omitting species where both sexes not known [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource
Desbruyères, D., M. Segonzac & M. Bright (eds.). (2006). Handbook of Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna. Second Edition Denisia 18:1-544. (Copepods 316-355) (Polychaeta 183-296), available online at http://www.landesmuseum.at/datenbanken/digilit/?litnr=23702 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Branchi from the Greek branchia for gills, plus noto from notos, Greek for back, and gluma from the Latin gluma, a bract, referring to the presence of branchiae and notopodial bracts. Gender feminine [details]
Grammatical gender gender is feminine [details]Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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