WoRMS taxon details
original description
San Martín, G.; López, E.; Aguado, M.T. 2009. Revision of the genus <i>Pionosyllis</i> (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Eusyllinae), with a cladistic analysis, and the description of five new genera and two new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89(7): 1455-1498 page(s): 1468-1469 [details]
identification resource
Nascimento, Rodolfo Leandro; Fukuda, Marcelo Veronesi; Paiva, Paulo Cesar de. (2024). Two new 'incertae sedis' syllids (Annelida: Syllidae) from Brazilian oceanic islands. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 925: 46-66., available online at https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/2449 page(s): 48; note: key to the known six species [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology The name of the genus is a compound referring to the short dorsal cirri of members of the genus, combined with Syllis, the major genus of the family [details]
Grammatical gender Feminine. The authors do not state the gender but it is feminine following the feminine gender of 'Syllis' which is the carried-over second part of the compound name and is derived from a Greek female name. Somewhat paradoxically all the names so far (as at 2024) are genitives relating to people or are geographic, rather than purely adjectival. [details]
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