Deep-Sea name details
Opisthotrochopodus Pettibone, 1985
324968 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324968)
unaccepted (male morph subjective synonym)
Genus
Opisthotrochopodus alvinus Pettibone, 1985 accepted as Branchinotogluma hessleri Pettibone, 1985 (type by original designation)
- Species Opisthotrochopodus alvinus Pettibone, 1985 accepted as Branchinotogluma hessleri Pettibone, 1985 (male morph subjective synonym)
- Species Opisthotrochopodus japonicus Miura & Hashimoto, 1991 accepted as Branchinotogluma japonicus (Miura & Hashimoto, 1991) accepted as Branchipolynoe japonicus (Miura & Hashimoto, 1991) (subjective synonym)
- Species Opisthotrochopodus marianus Pettibone, 1989 accepted as Branchinotogluma marianus (Pettibone, 1989) accepted as Branchipolynoe marianus (Pettibone, 1989) (superseded original combination)
- Species Opisthotrochopodus trifurcus Miura & Desbruyères, 1995 accepted as Branchipolynoe trifurcus (Miura & Desbruyères, 1995) (superseded original combination)
- Species Opisthotrochopodus tunnicliffeae Pettibone, 1988 accepted as Branchinotogluma tunnicliffeae (Pettibone, 1988) accepted as Cladopolynoe tunnicliffeae (Pettibone, 1988) (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Pettibone, Marian H. 1985. Additional branchiate scale-worms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from Galapagos hydrothermal vent and rift-area off western Mexico at 21 N. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 98(2): 447-469.
page(s): 459 [details]
page(s): 459 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Opisthotrochopodus Pettibone, 1985. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324968 on 2025-04-06
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Opisthotrochopodus Pettibone, 1985. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324968 on 2025-04-06
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original description
Pettibone, Marian H. 1985. Additional branchiate scale-worms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from Galapagos hydrothermal vent and rift-area off western Mexico at 21 N. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 98(2): 447-469.
page(s): 459 [details]
taxonomy source Bonifácio, Paulo; Menot, Lénaïck. (2018). New genera and species from the Equatorial Pacific provide phylogenetic insights into deep-sea Polynoidae (Annelida). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 185(3): 555-635 [published online 14 November 2018; printed publication 27 February 2019]., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/185/3/555/5181329
page(s): 22-23; note: assignment to Macellicephalinae [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Desbruyères, D., M. Segonzac & M. Bright (eds.). (2006). Handbook of Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna. Second Edition Denisia 18:1-544. (Copepods 316-355) (Polychaeta 183-296), available online at http://www.landesmuseum.at/datenbanken/digilit/?litnr=23702
page(s): 219-20 [by Desbruyères & Hourdez] [details] Available for editors
page(s): 459 [details]
taxonomy source Bonifácio, Paulo; Menot, Lénaïck. (2018). New genera and species from the Equatorial Pacific provide phylogenetic insights into deep-sea Polynoidae (Annelida). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 185(3): 555-635 [published online 14 November 2018; printed publication 27 February 2019]., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/185/3/555/5181329
page(s): 22-23; note: assignment to Macellicephalinae [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy Desbruyères, D., M. Segonzac & M. Bright (eds.). (2006). Handbook of Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna. Second Edition Denisia 18:1-544. (Copepods 316-355) (Polychaeta 183-296), available online at http://www.landesmuseum.at/datenbanken/digilit/?litnr=23702
page(s): 219-20 [by Desbruyères & Hourdez] [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Desbruyères & Hourdez (2006:219) in the Vent Fauna Handbook newly synonymised (but not indicated as such) Opisthotrochopodus alvinus to Branchinotogluma hessleri. As both are the types of their genus, this invalidates Opisthotrochopodus and effectively places all species of Opisthotrochopodus in Branchinotogluma, until further reviewed. [details]
