Polychaeta name details
original description
(of Lepidonotus Leach, 1816) Leach, W.E. (1816). Annulosa. <em>In Book Series: Encyclopedia Britannica, vol 1 of 5, supplement to the fourth, fifth and sixth editions.</em> 1(2): 401-453, pls. 20-26. (June1816)., available online at https://digital.nls.uk/encyclopaedia-britannica/archive/193057498 page(s): 452 [details]
basis of record
Berkeley, Edith; Berkeley, Cyril. (1941). On a collection of Polychaeta from Southern California. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 40(1): 16-60, plate 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34209137 page(s): 20; note: A species record of Thormora johnstoni as 'Thormora (Lepidonotus) johnstoni (Kinberg)". This formation is an impossible name, and is probably a lapsus. [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Illegal genus subgenus combination as used by e.g., Berkeley & Berkeley (1941), as Lepidonotus can never be a subgenus of Thormora. It long pre-dates Thormora and cannot be subordinate to it. [details]
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