Polychaeta name details
original description
Augener, Hermann. (1925). Die Polychaeten der Südsee-Expedition der Hamburgischen wissenschaftliche Stiftung 1908-1909. <em>Mitteilungen der Zooologisches Staatinstitut und zoologisches Museum, Hamburg.</em> 41: 53-70, Taf 1. [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
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. [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated, but the name for H. novaepommeraniae is evidently a latinised form of the former name of the island of collection, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, now part of Papua New Guinea, once a German colony named Neupommern, after the Baltic (Ostsee) coastal lands besides Pommersche Bucht. [details]
Grammatical gender Unchanging noun in the genitive case created from a place-name latinised as 'novaepommeran'.
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Holotype Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg V 9749 [details]
Taxonomy Eupomatus is unused as a genus or subgenus [details]
Type locality Hannan (or Garua) Harbour, north coast of New Britain, Papua New Guinea, -5.2833 150.0333 (map estimate) [details]
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