WoRMS taxon details
original description
Augener, Hermann. (1918). Polychaeta. <em>Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas.</em> 2(2): 67-625, plates II-VII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7172280 page(s): 488; note: new genus Petaloclymene. Augener regarded it as 'clymenoid', thus it would require to belong in Euclymeninae subfamily [details]
additional source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf page(s): 41; note: Included in a listing of invalid genera of Maldanidae as 'incompletely known' [details]
additional source
Zoological Record. The record of Zoological Literature. Series of books from 1865 onwards. page(s): issue for 1918, page 24; note: listing for genus and species [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Original diagnosis: "Vorderende unbekannt, aber der Kopf vermutlich nach clymenoidem Typus mit Kopfsaum versehen. Hintere Körperstrecke mit 2 nackten Präanalsegmenten, aus mindestens 12 Segmenten bestehend. Analsegment mit subzentral-terminal gelegenem After und mit ungleichmäßig, namentlich ventral starkentwickeltem, mit Cirren versehenem Trichtersaum. Segmente mit kegelförmigen medianer, dorso-terminaler, großer Papille. [Anterior end unknown, but the head presumably provided with a clymenoid type. Rear part of the body with 2 naked preanal segments, consisting of at least 12 segments. Anal segment with subcentral terminal anus and unevenly, especially ventrally strong, provided with cirrus funnel. Segments with a conical median, dorso-terminal, large papilla.] [details]
Homonymy Senior homonym to Petaloclymene Green, 1997 [details]
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