Species Malacoceros fuliginosa [auctt.](uncertain > nomen dubium, misspellling, perhaps arising from incorrect usage of Malacoceros as subgenus of Scolelepis)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Quatrefages, Armand de. (1843). Description de quelques espèces nouvelles d'annélides errantes recueillies sur les côtes de la Manche. <em>Magasin de Zoologie, d'Anatomie Comparée et de Palaeontologie, Paris.</em> Série 2, 5: 1-16, plates I-III., available online athttps://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41155346 page(s): 8-10 [details]
Note Spio vulgaris Johnston, 1827, subsequent...
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Type speciesSpio vulgaris Johnston, 1827, subsequent designation by Pettibone (1963: 98). [details]
Etymology Not stated. The name Malacoceros is composed by the words malaco, from the Ancient Greek malakós (= 'soft'), and ceros,...
Etymology Not stated. The name Malacoceros is composed by the words malaco, from the Ancient Greek malakós (= 'soft'), and ceros, from the Greek kéras (= 'horn'), and seems to refer to the presence of two soft lateral projections or 'horns' on the anterior margin of the prostomium. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Malacoceros Quatrefages, 1843. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129614 on 2024-08-16
original descriptionQuatrefages, Armand de. (1843). Description de quelques espèces nouvelles d'annélides errantes recueillies sur les côtes de la Manche. <em>Magasin de Zoologie, d'Anatomie Comparée et de Palaeontologie, Paris.</em> Série 2, 5: 1-16, plates I-III., available online athttps://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41155346 page(s): 8-10 [details]
original description(ofUncinia Quatrefages, 1866)Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online athttp://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ page(s): 439 [details]
basis of recordBellan, 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 sourceDay, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online athttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 page(s): 477 [details]
additional sourceGlasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceFauchald, 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 athttp://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf[details]
identification resourceDelgado-Blas, V. Hugo; Díaz-Díaz, Óscar (2013) Malacoceros longiseta, a new species of Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Venezuela. Marine Biodiversity 43 (3): 81-187 page(s): table 1; note: synoptic table of species [details]
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Etymology Not stated. The name Malacoceros is composed by the words malaco, from the Ancient Greek malakós (= 'soft'), and ceros, from the Greek kéras (= 'horn'), and seems to refer to the presence of two soft lateral projections or 'horns' on the anterior margin of the prostomium. [details] Grammatical gender Probably masculine. Compound words deriving from Greek κερασ (keras) 'horn' have been latinised with variable genders. Here the latinisation -ceros is of uncertain gender. Quatrefages appears to have regarded his genus word as masculine, and others have followed him, with some modern exceptions. [details] Type speciesSpio vulgaris Johnston, 1827, subsequent designation by Pettibone (1963: 98). [details]