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): 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
source of synonymy
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
page(s): 219-20 [by Desbruyères & Hourdez] [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Desbruyères & Hourdez (2006:219) in the Vent Fauna Handbook newly synonymised (but not indicated as such) Opisthotrochopodus alvinus to Branchinotogluma hessleri. As both are the types of their genus, this invalidates Opisthotrochopodus and effectively places all species of Opisthotrochopodus in Branchinotogluma, until further reviewed. [details]