Polychaeta name details
original description
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. page(s): 183 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Anophthalmus Alikuhni, 1949) Alikuhni, K. H. (1949). On Anophthalmus (Fam: Hesionidae). A new genus of polychaetes with descriptions of four new species from the sandy beach of Madras. <em>Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress.</em> 35: 192. [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Alikuhnia is a replacement name for the junior homonym Anophthalmus Alikuhni (1949). Pleijel (1998) considered it a name of uncertain status, possibly a synonym of Hesionides or Microphthalmus. [details]
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