WoRMS name details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ page(s): 552-553 [details] 
From editor or global species database
Spelling Note that the original spelling is "heterocheta", not "heterochaeta". The spelling as Tylorrhynchus heterochaetus is very common in modern non-taxonomic literature, but is incorrect. [details]
Type locality Java, Indonesia. Collections of the museum. Quatrefages states that "Cette curieuse espèce a été donnée au Muséum par M. le duc de Luynes" This is vague information as usual for this periord, and it is likely the museum had minimal information on how and exactly where it was collected. [details]Unreviewed
Specimen Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, POLY TYPE 393-395 [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
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