Polychaeta name details
original description
Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291 page(s): 241 [details]
source of synonymy
Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631 page(s): 386-387; note: with Thelepus Leuckart, 1849 [details]
source of synonymy
Tauber, P. (1879). Annulata Danica. En Kritisk Revision af de i Danmark Fundne Annulata Chaetognatha, Gephyrea, Balanoglossi, Discophoreae, Oligochaeta, Gymnocopa og Polychaeta. <em>Reitzel. K benhavn.</em> 1-143. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 133; note: wiith Terebella [details]
status source
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): 531 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Johnston (1865: 241): "Body vermiform, with setigerous and uncinated feet to all the segments : head disciform, with an everted cartilaginous border produced on each side of the mouth into a tentacular lobe : mouth inferior, over-vaulted with a cartilaginous concave hood : sternal band continuous down the abdominal surface, and coequal in segmentation : branchiae tufted, one pair : bristles and uncini as in Terebella.—Tube adherent throughout, horizontal." [details]
Etymology Not stated, uncertain. Venusia might refer to the fact that the type species was described as having preference to build its tube inside old shells of Venus islandica: "The tube is adherent throughout, generally constructed on old bivalve shells; and the inside of a valve of Venus islandica is an especial favourite locality" (Johnston, 1865: 241). Venusia was also the Latin name of the town of Venosa, on the borders of Apulia and Lucania, and the birthplace of the poet Horace. [details]
Homonymy Venusia Johnston, 1865 (Annelida) is a junior primary homonym of Venusia Curtis, 1839 [Lepidoptera; Brit. Entom., 16 (190), no. 759)]. [details]
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