WoRMS name details
original description
Claparède, Édouard. (1864). Glanures zootomiques parmi les annélides de Port-Vendres (Pyrénées Orientales). <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 17(2): 463-600, plates I-VIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1972 page(s): 560-562, plate VII fig. 1 [details]
additional source
Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ page(s): 649-650 [details]
source of synonymy
Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes errantes. Faune de France. <em>Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris.</em> 5: 1-488., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/ page(s): 280; note: with Pterosyllis formosa Claparède, 1863 [details]
new combination reference
Langerhans, Paul. (1879). Die Wurmfauna von Madeira [part I]. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 32(4): 513-592, plates XXXI-XXXIII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45240737 page(s): 560; note: as Amblyosyllis dorsigera [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Not stated, unknown. Probably shallow water. [details]
Distribution Mediterranean Sea, France, Port-Vendres. [details]
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet dorsigera is the feminine of the Latin word dorsigerous, meaning 'bearing' or 'carrying on the back', and may refer to the colour pattern that the species bears on its back, with all the segments between the second and the sixth bearing a lying violet '8' on their surface. [details]
Habitat Not stated, unknown. [details]
Specimen Types not retained. [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed. [details]
Type locality Port-Vendres, France, Mediterranean Sea (gazetteer estimate 42.519º, 03.109º). [details]
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