WoRMS taxon details
original description
Furuya, H. (1999). Fourteen new species of dicyemid mesozoans from six Japanese cephalopods, with comments on host specificity. Species Divers. 4(2): 257-319 (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source
Furuya, H. (2006). Three new species of dicyemid mesozoans (phylum Dicyemida) from <i>Amphioctopus fangsiao</i> (Mollusca: Cephalopoda), with comments on the occurrence patterns of dicyemids. Zool. Sci. 23(1): 105-119. (look up in IMIS) [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology The specific name colurum is derived from the Greek word colouros, meaning "truncated", because the calotte region is distinctly truncated. [details]
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