WoRMS name details
original description
Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ page(s): 421; note: New genus for 4 prior species with spiralled crowns that were previously in Amphitrite and Sabella, and one new species, D. punctata [details]
source of synonymy
Knight-Jones, Phyllis; Perkins, Thomas H. (1998). A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 123: 385-467., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb01370.x page(s): 405 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Type species Quatrefages (1866: 421) is either unaware of, or ignoring Bispira Krøyer, 1856, when he creates Distylia for 5 species, one of which is new. Amphitrite volutacornis Montagu, 1804, as Distylia volutacornis is the first species of the 5 mentioned, and later Bush (1905: 192), after some earlier discussion (p.183) including comment on confusion over Bispira, 'restores' genus Distylia for Amphitrite volutacornis Montagu, 1804, and formally names that species as the type species of Distylia. [details]
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