Polychaeta name details
original description
San Martín, G.; López, E.; Aguado, M.T. 2009. Revision of the genus <i>Pionosyllis</i> (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Eusyllinae), with a cladistic analysis, and the description of five new genera and two new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89(7): 1455-1498 page(s): 1461-1467 [details]
source of synonymy
Paresque, Karla; San Martín, Guillermo; Álvarez-Campos, Patricia; Nogueira, João Miguel De Matos; Fukuda, Marcelo Veronesi. (2016). Two new species and new records of the genus Paraopisthosyllis Hartmann-Schröder, 1991 (Annelida: Syllidae) from northeastern Brazil and Philippine Islands. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4178(1): 116–130., available online at http://mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4178.1.5 page(s): 118 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology The name of the genus derives from the Greek basidios meaning 'club', and Syllis, in reference to the club-shaped dorsal cirri and antennae. [details]
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