Polychaeta name details
original description
Grube, A.E. 1868. Beschreibungen einiger von Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld gesammelter Anneliden und Gephyreen des rothen Meeres. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 18: 629-650. Plates 7-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25254604 page(s): 639, plate 7 fig. 8; note: as S. (Eupomatus) heterocerus original spelling [details]
source of synonymy
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 adjectival combination from latinised Greek 'hetero' (different) combined with 'cerus' (horn), presumably a reference to the opercular spines [details]
Grammatical gender Serpula is feminine therefore Grube's 'heterocerus' ending appears to be a mismatch. Perhaps he was matching it to the subgenus. Some later authors introduced a 'heteroceros' ending, but this just appears to be a lapsus. Although '-ceros' epithet spellings exist, Grube's original spelling cannot be arbitrarily changed in this way. [details]
Type locality Unspecified Red Sea, but perhaps northern Red Sea. Grube’s report was titled as Red Sea worms collected by Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld. Grube states in his opening sentence that the worms were handed to him without any other information, and unfortunately it seems he did not investigate this further. In the narrative of his visit von Frauenfeld (1855) mentions Suez, the Sinai Peninsula, and seeing countless annelids on the Red Sea shore, but does not match observation to locality. [details]
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