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Polychaeta name detailsEnigma Betrem, 1925
324596 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324596)
uncertain > nomen dubium (incertae sedis, indeterminable species)
Genus
Enigma terwielii Betrem, 1925 (type by monotypy)
marine,
recent only
Betrem, J. G. (1925). Een nieuwe aan de Anneliden verwante diervorm, het nieuwe genus Enigma. <em>Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging, Leiden.</em> Ser. 2, 19(3-4): xcix [text derived from Betrem in meeting report notes: Meeting report in Utrecht in the Institute for Zootechnick Veterinary High School.].
page(s): xcix; note: as reported in a meeting report [details] 
Homonymy Nomenclator zoologicus does not record Enigma Betrem, but there is an Enigma Newman 1842 in Coleoptera. This seems to be a...
Homonymy Nomenclator zoologicus does not record Enigma Betrem, but there is an Enigma Newman 1842 in Coleoptera. This seems to be a misspelling of Aenigma Newman, 1836, thus would not be an available name as a prior usage and senior homonym. There is also a plant Kingdom Enigma (Enigma Weber-van Bosse, 1932, in Rhodophyta), which is also a nomen dubium [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Enigma Betrem, 1925. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324596 on 2024-04-18
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original description
Betrem, J. G. (1925). Een nieuwe aan de Anneliden verwante diervorm, het nieuwe genus Enigma. <em>Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging, Leiden.</em> Ser. 2, 19(3-4): xcix [text derived from Betrem in meeting report notes: Meeting report in Utrecht in the Institute for Zootechnick Veterinary High School.].
page(s): xcix; note: as reported in a meeting report [details] status source Hartman, Olga. (1967). Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 2: 1-387. page(s): 127; note: While presenting her Flota flabelligera description Hartman discusses Enigma terwielli based on information received from J. van der Land, and from J G Betrem [details] Available for editors  [request] status source Rouse, G.W. and Pleijel, Fredrik 2003. Problems in polychaete systematics. Hydrobiologia 496: 175-189., available online at https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1026188630116 page(s): 180; note: Poeobius-like thus Flabelligeridae now [details] status source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf page(s): 117; note: treated as incertae sedis within Poebiidae (now in Flabelligeridae) [details] From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Enigma terwielii is an unintentionally published species name that appeared prematurely in an obscure meeting report but also satisfies the requirements of publication of a name. The name was considered by Hartman (1967) in comparison with Flota flabelligera and Poeobius meseres and (as misspelled usages) by Fauchald (1977) and Rouse & Pleijel (2003). There is no material in existence, no full description, no figures. If it is a synonym of Poeobius meseres it would be the senior synonym, but it is an indeterminable taxon. [details]Homonymy Nomenclator zoologicus does not record Enigma Betrem, but there is an Enigma Newman 1842 in Coleoptera. This seems to be a misspelling of Aenigma Newman, 1836, thus would not be an available name as a prior usage and senior homonym. There is also a plant Kingdom Enigma (Enigma Weber-van Bosse, 1932, in Rhodophyta), which is also a nomen dubium [details] |