WoRMS taxon details
original description
Nogueira, João Miguel De Matos, Fitzhugh, Kirk, Rossi, Maíra Cappellani Silva. 2010. A new genus and new species of fan worms (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) from Atlantic and Pacific Oceans—the formal treatment of taxon names as explanatory hypotheses. Zootaxa 2603: 1–52. , available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02603p052f.pdf page(s): 4 [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated. Clearly a combination of Sabella and Omma, neuter Greek noun for eye. [details]
Grammatical gender Gender is neuter, as for the other -omma names in Sabellidae, Acromegalomma, Branchiomma, and Pseudobranchiomma. However, the authors of Sabellomma did not modify the suffix for the type species to 'minutum' as required when they recombined Parasabella minuta. [details]
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