WoRMS taxon details
Pseudoscalibregma papilia Schüller, 2008
477225 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:477225)
accepted
Species
marine
Schüller, M. 2008. New polychaete species collected during the expeditions ANDEEP I, II, and III to the deep Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean in the austral summers 2002 and 2005 - Ampharetidae, Opheliidae, and Scalibregmatidae. Zootaxa 1705: 51-68, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01705p068f.pdf [details]
Holotype ZMH P-24761, geounit South Sandwich Islands
Holotype ZMH P-24761, geounit South Sandwich Islands [details]
Etymology Schüller (2008) states that Pseudoscalibregma papilia is named for the shape of the posterior parapodia which resemble...
Etymology Schüller (2008) states that Pseudoscalibregma papilia is named for the shape of the posterior parapodia which resemble butterfly wings. Thus it looks like 'papilia' is a noun and must be treated as an unchanging noun in apposition, However, the Latin word for butterfly is actually papilio, -onis, m, and there is no 'papilia' word in Latin. No one has used it as a species-group name in WoRMS except Schüller, and the closest spelling after 'papilio' would be papilla, -ae f, meaning a nipple or bud, adopted into technical English with the same spelling. In contrast there are 170 'papilio' based names in WoRMS. 'Thus, although the author's intention is clear, 'papilia' is a mistakenly invented word, and must be treated as an arbitrary combination of letters and as a noun cannot be corrected to 'papilio' or to a gender-matching neuter adjective by subsequent taxonomists. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pseudoscalibregma papilia Schüller, 2008. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=477225 on 2025-10-11
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Nomenclature
original description
Schüller, M. 2008. New polychaete species collected during the expeditions ANDEEP I, II, and III to the deep Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean in the austral summers 2002 and 2005 - Ampharetidae, Opheliidae, and Scalibregmatidae. Zootaxa 1705: 51-68, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01705p068f.pdf [details]
basis of record CeDAMar (Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life), available online at http://www.cedamar.org/ [details]
basis of record CeDAMar (Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life), available online at http://www.cedamar.org/ [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype ZMH P-24761, geounit South Sandwich Islands [details]
Paratype ZMH P-24762, geounit South Sandwich Islands [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Schüller (2008) states that Pseudoscalibregma papilia is named for the shape of the posterior parapodia which resemble butterfly wings. Thus it looks like 'papilia' is a noun and must be treated as an unchanging noun in apposition, However, the Latin word for butterfly is actually papilio, -onis, m, and there is no 'papilia' word in Latin. No one has used it as a species-group name in WoRMS except Schüller, and the closest spelling after 'papilio' would be papilla, -ae f, meaning a nipple or bud, adopted into technical English with the same spelling. In contrast there are 170 'papilio' based names in WoRMS. 'Thus, although the author's intention is clear, 'papilia' is a mistakenly invented word, and must be treated as an arbitrary combination of letters and as a noun cannot be corrected to 'papilio' or to a gender-matching neuter adjective by subsequent taxonomists. [details]Unreviewed
Habitat abyssal plain [details]
