Polychaeta 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): 507; note: Not a genus, but used as a subgenus or subgrouping of Serpula, for the species Eupomatus uncinatus, Serpula vermicularis, and Serpula mulleri [details]
source of synonymy
Bastida-Zavala, Jose Rolando and ten Hove, Harry A. 2002. Revision of Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768 (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Western Atlantic Region. Beaufortia, 52(9): 103-178. [details]
From editor or global species database
Grammatical gender Assumed to be neuter from the Greek noun phragma (a fence or hedge), but as Quatrefages names were agreeing with feminine Serpula (with Polyphragma as a subgroup of it), there is no usage which demonstrates this. [details]
Homonymy Polyphragma Quatrefages 1866 is the senior homonym to Polyphragma Reuss 1871 in Protista, and Polyphragma Alexander 1931 in Diptera (renamed Eupolyphragma Alexander 1948) [details]
Nomenclature Hartman (1959) states Polyphragma was erected for Eupomatus uncinatus. However, two further species were included. Quatrefages seems to have applied the name as a label for a grouping at a rank of subgenus or lower within Serpula, defined by a two layered operculum. This is Hydroides, type H. norvegica. In contrast, Quatrefages included Hydroides norvegica in his Vermilia, a lumped grouping of several genera valid today. [details]
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