Grube (1855: 121) assigns the authorship just to Koch, but this evidently is Koch as published in Renier, 1847, ... [details]

Authorship of this name was incorrectly attributed to Grube (1856) in WoRMS (data entry error) and was corrected ... [details]

The genus name Polyodontes derives from an unpublished manuscript name of Renier, introduced in synonymy by ... [details]

Depth not stated in the original description, though the type material was collected on the coast. [details]

Origin and validity of Phylodamas is under investigation [details]

"Clytie Namen einer Meernymphe [Clytie name of a sea nymph]" (Grube, 1855: 113). Clytie (or Clytia) was one of the ... [details]

Grube (1855) gives the Greek words derivation of Notopygos as (in German) Rucken + After or (in English) dorsal ... [details]

Grube provides the Greek original and the German equivalent for his new Latin genus name, Oxydromus (see the image ... [details]

The specific epithet spongicola is formed by the Latin word for sponge, spongia, followed by the Latin suffix ... [details]

Grube (1855) appears to treat Notopygos as feminine, as he uses 'crinita', and later adds 'ornata' as another ... [details]

Oxydromus is masculine gender. This is evident from its suffix and its etymology, and its treatment as masculine by ... [details]

Coast. [details]

In orange colored sponges.  [details]

Lumbricus litoralis Grube 1855 is not a primary junior homonym to Lumbricus littoralis Johnston 1827 as the two ... [details]

Junior homonym to Staurocephalus Barrande 1846, a fossil trilobite genus published in Barrande J . 1846. Notice ... [details]

In Grube (1850:288) both Notopygos and N. crinita are nomina nuda. Grube indicates N. crinita as nov. spec. but ... [details]

The original spelling is Lopadorrhynchus, but Lopadorhynchus is a very common misspelling, and was used in the ... [details]

Chamberlin (1919) modified the species name to 'maculatus' when he recombined to Notopygos but this is incorrect as ... [details]

"Villa Franca" (= Villefranche-sur-Mer; gazetteer estimate 43.705°, 7.316°), France, Mediterranean Sea. [details]

Grube (1855) gives the location as "Kommt bei Villa franca im Uferboden des Meeres" and states that the species is ... [details]

Northern Adriatic Sea, near Trieste, Italy (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be ... [details]

Three syntypes deposited at the Museum Przyrodnicze Universitetu Wroclawskiergo (MPW, Poland), with the reference ... [details]