WoRMS name details
original description
Leuckart, R. 1855. Ueber die Jugendzustande einiger Anneliden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 21(1): 63-80. [details]
From editor or global species database
Status Mesotrocha is based on a larval stage and unlikely to be a valid genus. See comments in Moore et al. (2017 Introduction) that "the type taxon Mesotrocha sexoculata represents a larval stage (Busch 1851; Leuckart 1855), with several identities proposed: a Chaetopterus species (Muller, 1855), Spiochaetopterus costarum or Phyllochaetopterus socialis (Claparede & Mecznikow, 1869) or Mesochaetopterus sagittarius (Bhaud, 1966). [details]
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