WoRMS taxon details
Pseudoscalibregma usarpium Blake, 1981
331433 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:331433)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Blake, J.A. (1981). The Scalibregmatidae (Annelida:Polychaeta) from South America and Antarctica collected chiefly during the cruises of the R/V <i>Anton Bruun</i>, R.V. <i>Hero</i> and USNS <i>Eltanin</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 94(4): 1131-1162., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34607646
page(s): 1145-1146 [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 1145-1146 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Holotype USNM 60583, geounit Ross Sea
, Type locality contained in Southern Ocean , Note Ross Sea, Antarctica
Holotype USNM 60583, geounit Ross Sea [details]
type locality contained in Southern Ocean [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Ross Sea, Antarctica [details]
Etymology Pseudoscalibregma usarpium species group name is "coined from the abbreviated designation of the United States Antarctic...
Etymology Pseudoscalibregma usarpium species group name is "coined from the abbreviated designation of the United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) under whose auspice the species was collected." Blake (1981) does not explain further how 'usarpium' gained its suffix. Acronyms are permitted as species-group names provided they can be spoken as a word.
As USARP is an abstract entity, then 'usarpium' must be an unchanging abstract noun, not an adjective, and formed by adding the Latinate suffix '-ium', rather like the convention for names of elements (cadmium, iridium, lithium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, titanium, uranium, etc). These are all nouns. So 'usarpium' is a noun in apposition and not a neuter-ending adjective [details]
As USARP is an abstract entity, then 'usarpium' must be an unchanging abstract noun, not an adjective, and formed by adding the Latinate suffix '-ium', rather like the convention for names of elements (cadmium, iridium, lithium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, titanium, uranium, etc). These are all nouns. So 'usarpium' is a noun in apposition and not a neuter-ending adjective [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pseudoscalibregma usarpium Blake, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=331433 on 2025-10-09
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Blake, J.A. (1981). The Scalibregmatidae (Annelida:Polychaeta) from South America and Antarctica collected chiefly during the cruises of the R/V <i>Anton Bruun</i>, R.V. <i>Hero</i> and USNS <i>Eltanin</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 94(4): 1131-1162., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34607646
page(s): 1145-1146 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 1145-1146 [details] Available for editors
[request]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 USNM 60583, geounit Ross Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Pseudoscalibregma usarpium species group name is "coined from the abbreviated designation of the United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) under whose auspice the species was collected." Blake (1981) does not explain further how 'usarpium' gained its suffix. Acronyms are permitted as species-group names provided they can be spoken as a word.As USARP is an abstract entity, then 'usarpium' must be an unchanging abstract noun, not an adjective, and formed by adding the Latinate suffix '-ium', rather like the convention for names of elements (cadmium, iridium, lithium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, titanium, uranium, etc). These are all nouns. So 'usarpium' is a noun in apposition and not a neuter-ending adjective [details]
Type locality Ross Sea, Antarctica [details]
