WoRMS name details
original description
Grube, Adolph-Eduard 1846. Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Zweiter Beitrag: Corephorus elegans Gr., Ammochares Ottonis Gr., Dasymallus caducus Gr., Scalis minax Gr. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 12: 161-171,plate 5, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13704924 page(s): 161; note: spelling several times as 'Corephorus' but an errata appears to change it to 'Canephorus' [details]
source of synonymy
Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350 page(s): 137; note: lists 'Canephorus' as a synonym of Terebellides [details]
status source
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. page(s): 532; note: listing as synonym of Terebellides, with variant spelling given as 'Canephorus' [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Grube (1846: 161): "Corpus Terebellis simile; os anticum, lamina cirros longos, tortiles gerente circumdatum: branchia una, lobata, patelliformis, lamellosa, dorso corporis insidens; pars corporis anterior setis et rostratis et capillaribus armata, posterior solis pinnulis uncinos gerentibus munita." [details]
Etymology Grube p.163 states he named the genus because the whole figure of the gill to some extent recalls the basket [weil die ganze Gestalt der Kieme eiuigermassen an einen zierlichen Korb erinnert.] This is why the spelling should have been 'Canephorus' not 'Corephorus' as a compound Latinised word meaning basket-bearing (One Greek term for basket is 'kanistron', Latin 'canistrum'). [details]
Spelling Grube used the spelling Corephorus in the title and in the text, but in a later paper he used 'Canephorus' (placed as a synonym of Terebellides, and in the errata on p378 for the 1846 volume 'Corephorus' appears to be corrected to 'Canephorus' . This is because it was a reference to bearing gills of basket-like appearance. One Greek term for basket is 'kanistron', Latin 'canistrum'. [details]
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