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Polychaeta taxon detailsScopyrites Briggs & Bartels, 2010 †
1595559 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1595559)
accepted
Genus
Scopyrites magnus Briggs & Bartels, 2010 † (type by original designation)
marine, terrestrial
fossil only
masculine
Briggs, Derek E. G.; Bartels, Christoph. (2010). Annelids from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Lower Emsian, Rhenish Massif, Germany). <em>Palaeontology.</em> 53(1): 215-232., available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00927.x
page(s): 226, figure 11; note: for Scopyrites magnus [details]
Etymology authors: Scopyrites from "Scoparius L. – sweeper, referring to the brush-like appearance of the bundles of chaetae; pyrites...
Etymology authors: Scopyrites from "Scoparius L. – sweeper, referring to the brush-like appearance of the bundles of chaetae; pyrites Gr. – referring to the mineral." Genus gender not stated but in Greek pyrites is a masculine noun, thus the genus is masculine. This is confirmed by use of the masculine suffix with the species name, 'magnus' [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Scopyrites Briggs & Bartels, 2010 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1595559 on 2024-04-30
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original description
Briggs, Derek E. G.; Bartels, Christoph. (2010). Annelids from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Lower Emsian, Rhenish Massif, Germany). <em>Palaeontology.</em> 53(1): 215-232., available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00927.x
page(s): 226, figure 11; note: for Scopyrites magnus [details] From editor or global species database
Etymology authors: Scopyrites from "Scoparius L. – sweeper, referring to the brush-like appearance of the bundles of chaetae; pyrites Gr. – referring to the mineral." Genus gender not stated but in Greek pyrites is a masculine noun, thus the genus is masculine. This is confirmed by use of the masculine suffix with the species name, 'magnus' [details]Grammatical gender In Greek pyrites is a masculine noun, thus the genus is masculine. [details] |