WoRMS name details
original description
Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm [details]
additional 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. [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated, but in the description for Eupomatus dipoma Schmarda (1861: 29, plate 21) describes in Latin "Operculum duplex infundibuliforme" (double funnel lid) and in German “Das Thier hat zwei Deckel” (has two lids), evidently referring to the two opercula figured in his plate, and based on Greek δις (dis) ‘twice’, and πωμα (poma) ‘cap’. [details]
Type locality Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (“Vorgebirge der Guten Hoffnung”), geolocation -34.3583° 18.4725° (gazetteer position of the cape, although Schmarda more likely was indicating a general coastal area).
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