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
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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]From other sources
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]