original description
Greeff, R. (1879). Ueber pelagische Anneliden von der Küste der canarischen Inseln. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 32: 237-283, plates XIII-XV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45240415
page(s): 247-249 [details]
taxonomy source
Kolbasova, G.; Neretina, T. (2021). A new species of <em>Pelagobia</em> (Lopadorrhynchidae, Annelida), with some notes on literature records of <em>Pelagobia</em> <em>longicirrata</em> Greeff, 1879. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5023(1): 77-92., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5023.1.4 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional 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
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Diagnosis "Prostomium with two antennae and two palps; first segment with chaetae and two pairs of tentacular cirri; second segment without dorsal cirri. Parapodia uniramous, acicular. Dorsal and ventral cirri digitiform, longer than parapodial lobes; all chaetae compound spinigers." (Kolbasova & Neretina, 2021)
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Grammatical gender Not stated. Pelagobia is feminine since Greef used a feminine adjectival suffix for the type species, P. longicirrata [details]