Polychaeta name details
original description
Claparède, Édouard. (1864). Glanures zootomiques parmi les annélides de Port-Vendres (Pyrénées Orientales). <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 17(2): 463-600, plates I-VIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1972 page(s): 468; note: Aloysina is a genus name tentatively proposed by Claparède in a footnote to his observations on Polyophthalmus pictus [details]
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Etymology Claparède states that Aloysina is derived from the name of M. Alois Humbert who was the travelling companion of Claparède [details]
Taxonomy Aloysina is a genus name tentatively proposed by Claparède in a footnote to his observations on Polyophthalmus pictus, if further study required that P. pictus did not remain in Polyophthalmus genus. Nomenclator Zoologicus, Hartman (catalogue) and Fauchald (1977) all record the name as a genus, although it was likely never used in a binominal [details]
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