WoRMS name details
Prionognathus Keferstein, 1862
324699 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324699)
unaccepted (junior homonym, subjective senior synonym to Dorvillea)
Genus
Prionognathus ciliata Keferstein, 1862 accepted as Schistomeringos rudolphi (Delle Chiaje, 1828) (type by monotypy)
Species Prionognathus boecki Malmgren, 1867 (taxon inquirendum, indeterminable from description )
Species Prionognathus ciliata Keferstein, 1862 accepted as Schistomeringos rudolphi (Delle Chiaje, 1828) (subjective synonym)
Species Prionognathus kefersteini (McIntosh, 1869) accepted as Protodorvillea kefersteini (McIntosh, 1869) (superseded subsequent combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
masculine
Keferstein, Wilhelm. (1862). Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 12(1): 1-147 plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44977773
page(s): 99, plate 8, figure 13-19; note: for Prionognathus ciliata [sic] [details]
page(s): 99, plate 8, figure 13-19; note: for Prionognathus ciliata [sic] [details]

Homonymy Prionognathus Keferstein, 1862 is a junior homonym to Prionognathus De La Ferté-Sénectère, 1851 in Coleoptera, and...
Homonymy Prionognathus Keferstein, 1862 is a junior homonym to Prionognathus De La Ferté-Sénectère, 1851 in Coleoptera, and Prionognathus Pander, 1856 (replaced by Prionognathodus Fay, 1959) in Conodonta. McIntosh (1910: 352) placed it as a synonym of Staurocephalus Grube, 1855, a homonym replaced by Stauronereis Verrill, 1900 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Prionognathus Keferstein, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324699 on 2021-04-16
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original description
Keferstein, Wilhelm. (1862). Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 12(1): 1-147 plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44977773
page(s): 99, plate 8, figure 13-19; note: for Prionognathus ciliata [sic] [details]
source of synonymy 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): 113; note: genus synonymy as "see Schistomeringos" [details]
page(s): 99, plate 8, figure 13-19; note: for Prionognathus ciliata [sic] [details]

source of synonymy 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): 113; note: genus synonymy as "see Schistomeringos" [details]
From editor or global species database
Classification Quatrefages (1866: 16) saw a similarity to Gnathosyllis of Schmarda (now Syllis) and placed Prionognathus in the Syllidae. Subsequent authors did not agree. [details]Homonymy Prionognathus Keferstein, 1862 is a junior homonym to Prionognathus De La Ferté-Sénectère, 1851 in Coleoptera, and Prionognathus Pander, 1856 (replaced by Prionognathodus Fay, 1959) in Conodonta. McIntosh (1910: 352) placed it as a synonym of Staurocephalus Grube, 1855, a homonym replaced by Stauronereis Verrill, 1900 [details]