Polychaeta name details
original description
Day, John H. (1951). The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 1. The intertidal and estuarine Polychaeta of Natal and Mosambique. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 12(1): 1-67. page(s): 26 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
San Martín G. and Hutchings P.A.. 2006. Eusyllinae (Polychaeta, Syllidae) from Australia with the description of a new genus and fifteen new species. Records of the Australian Museum. 58. 257-370., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.58.2006.1466 page(s): 281-282 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Palps not fused, an occipital flap present, tentacles and dorsal cirri indistinctly moniliform, ventral cirri ovoid. Pharynx without teeth, but with a valve formed by the posterior end of a dorsal ridge meeting two inwardly projecting ventro-lateral ridges. [details]
Etymology The name of the genus, Pharyngeovalvata makes reference to the presence of a valve in the pharynx, formed by the posterior end of a dorsal ridge meeting two inwardly projecting ventro-lateral ridges. [details]
Taxonomy San Martín & Hutchings (2006) synonymized Pharyngeovalvata Day, 1951 with Odontosyllis Claparède, 1868, after examining one paratype of Pharyngeovalvata natalensis Day, 1951 (NHM 1961.16.16-17), type species of the genus, and considering it to be identical with Odontosyllis ctenostoma Claparède, 1868. [details]
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