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Polychaeta taxon detailsIntoshella Darboux, 1899
324952 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324952)
accepted
Genus
Polynoe (Langerhansia) euplectellae McIntosh, 1885 accepted as Intoshella euplectellae (McIntosh, 1885) (type by monotypy)
Polynoe (Langerhansia) McIntosh, 1885 · unaccepted (homonym for Langerhansia...)
homonym for Langerhansia Czerniavsky, 1881 in Syllidae
marine,
recent only
feminine
Darboux, G. (1899). Recherches sur les Aphroditiens. <em>Travaux de l'Institut de Zoologie de l'Université de Montpellier et de la Station zoologique de Cette.</em> Ser. 2, memoire 6: 1-276.
page(s): 95, 108 [details] (of Polynoe (Langerhansia) McIntosh, 1885) McIntosh, W.C. [M'Intosh]. (1885). Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 12 (part 34): i-xxxvi, 1-554, pl. 1-55, 1A-39A, & Annelida stations map., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50688426 page(s): 108; note: McIntosh gives no indication why he is naming his new species in a subgenus Langerhansia, or that the subgenus is new. [details] 
Etymology Not stated. Clearly a diminutive relating to William McIntosh (who had used the homonym Langerhansia replaced here as a...
Etymology Not stated. Clearly a diminutive relating to William McIntosh (who had used the homonym Langerhansia replaced here as a subgenus), with Darboux shortening M'Intosh to 'Intosh' and combining it with -ellus -a -um conveying littleness or relatedness, thus 'little McIntosh'. For reasons unknown Darboux appears to make the genus feminine by using -ella as the suffix. It might have been for euphony with the type species name, thus Intoshella euplectellae, but as he creates three other -ella genera at the same time, including another for another male name (Herdman), perhaps he just preferred the feminine -ella over -ellus. [details] Nomenclature Replacement name for Langerhansia McIntosh, 1885; originally as Polynoe (Langerhansia) McIntosh, 1885: 108-109
Nomenclature Replacement name for Langerhansia McIntosh, 1885; originally as Polynoe (Langerhansia) McIntosh, 1885: 108-109 [details] Taxonomy previously in Acholoinae Pettibone, 1996; assignment to Polynoinae fide Norlinder et al., 2012
Taxonomy previously in Acholoinae Pettibone, 1996; assignment to Polynoinae fide Norlinder et al., 2012 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Intoshella Darboux, 1899. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324952 on 2026-01-10
Date action by
original description
Darboux, G. (1899). Recherches sur les Aphroditiens. <em>Travaux de l'Institut de Zoologie de l'Université de Montpellier et de la Station zoologique de Cette.</em> Ser. 2, memoire 6: 1-276.
page(s): 95, 108 [details] original description (of Polynoe (Langerhansia) McIntosh, 1885) McIntosh, W.C. [M'Intosh]. (1885). Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 12 (part 34): i-xxxvi, 1-554, pl. 1-55, 1A-39A, & Annelida stations map., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50688426 page(s): 108; note: McIntosh gives no indication why he is naming his new species in a subgenus Langerhansia, or that the subgenus is new. [details] context source (Deepsea) Sui, J.; Li, X.; Kou, Q. (2018). A new species of the genus Intoshella Darboux, 1899 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) commensal with a deep-sea sponge from a seamount near the Mariana Trench. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-018-0922-5 [details] From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated. Clearly a diminutive relating to William McIntosh (who had used the homonym Langerhansia replaced here as a subgenus), with Darboux shortening M'Intosh to 'Intosh' and combining it with -ellus -a -um conveying littleness or relatedness, thus 'little McIntosh'. For reasons unknown Darboux appears to make the genus feminine by using -ella as the suffix. It might have been for euphony with the type species name, thus Intoshella euplectellae, but as he creates three other -ella genera at the same time, including another for another male name (Herdman), perhaps he just preferred the feminine -ella over -ellus. [details]Grammatical gender feminine. -ella is the feminine form of the diminutive -ellus -a -um [details] Nomenclature Replacement name for Langerhansia McIntosh, 1885; originally as Polynoe (Langerhansia) McIntosh, 1885: 108-109 [details] Taxonomy previously in Acholoinae Pettibone, 1996; assignment to Polynoinae fide Norlinder et al., 2012 [details] |
