Polychaeta name details
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Authority Dujardin's brief summary re Chloraema edwardsii in the 1838 July to December volume, session of September, 1838, of 'Comptes Rendus ...' appears to pre-date the fuller description in Dujardin (1839) in Annales des sciences naturelles
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Etymology named Chloraema for the green blood. "J'avais bien vu ce sang vert circuler dans deux vaisseaux, l'un dorsal et l'autre ventral" [details]
Homonymy Nomenclator Zoologicus reports Chloraema Agassiz, 1846, listed in his Nomen. Zool. Index Univ., is a junior homonym. Agassiz's spelling is one of his emendment 'improvements' of published names, in this case for Chloraima Koelliker, 1845, a nemertean. [details]
Spelling Multiple spelling variants exist. Hartman (1959) gives Chloraemum, Chlorema, Chlorhaema, Clorema. Nomenclator zoologicus adds Chloroema Quatrefages, Chiloraema Stein. [details]
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