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WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal 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
page(s): 163, plate 37, figures 326-329, plus text figure [details] 
original description
(of Heteropale Johnson, 1897) Johnson, Herbert P. 1897. A preliminary account of the marine annelids of the Pacific coast, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Ser. 3, 1(5): 153-199., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingscali01sciegoog
page(s): 162-163 [details]
Otheradditional source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
 Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated. Clearly named for the form of the dorsal chaetae, with Palea from Latin for chaff, and a widely used technical term for scale-like chaetal structures in polychaetes, here combined with Notus, latinized from the Greek Notos (back, dorsal), again widely used for naming structures that are dorsal in polychaetes. [details]
Grammatical gender Masculine. Notus is assumed to be masculine (although in Latin Notos/Notus has a different meaning from the Greek word use, although for the type species Schmarda combined Paleanotus with 'chrysolepis' where Lepis (a scale) as a noun is feminine. So if 'chrysolepis' is regarded as compound noun in apposition it does not help decide the genus gender. Both masculine and feminine adjectival names appear to have been used, but too few species have been named prior to 2015 to determine what the consensus is on the gender. However, for the latest species additions Watson (2015) used several masculine-suffixed adjectival names, including for example 'silus', an undoubted masculine-form adjective, as well as a feminine-looking noun in apposition (latifolia). [details]
Spelling Genus misspelled Paleonotus in Day & Morgans (1956:454) and occasionally elsewhere (eg Sterrer, 1986). The genus is named for its paleae (scale-like chaetae), so paleo (ancient) is obviously a mistake. Day (1967) has the correct Paleanotus spelling [details]
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