original description
Reibisch, J.G.F. (1895). Die pelagischen Phyllodociden und Typhloscoleciden der Plankton-Expedition. <em>Ergebnisse der in dem Atlantischen Ocean von Mitte Juli bis Anfang November 1889 ausgeführten Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung.</em> 2.H.c: 1-63, plates I-V., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2130690 [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Buzhinskaja, G. N. (2017). Descriptions of Pedinosoma curtum Reibisch from North-West Pacific and a late larva of Pedinosoma polaris sp. nov. from the Arctic Basin (Polychaeta: Phyllodocida: Lopadorhynchidae [sic]). <em>Zoosystematica Rossica.</em> 26(1): 3-10., available online at https://www.zin.ru/journals/zsr/content.asp?year=2017 [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis (Buzhinskaja 2017) Prostomium very short, fused partly or completely with first segment. One pair of antennae and one pair of palps situated at sides of prostomium. Eyes absent. Pharynx without papillae. First segment with two pairs of tentacular cirri. Podial lobe and chaetae present or absent at base of tentacular cirri. Parapodia of subsequent segments uniramous, with dorsal and ventral cirri: dorsal cirri rounded; ventral cirri rounded or elongated, with or without cirrophores. All chaetae fine, compound (heterogomph spinigers), with elongate and slender distal part. Anal cirri present or absent. Body short, consisting of 7–9 segments. Small pelagic species. [details]