original description
Busch, W. (1851). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklung einiger wirbellosen Seethiere. August Hirschwald, Berlin, pp. 143, pls 1-17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9996133 [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
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [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
Grammatical gender As 'scolex' meaning worm is a masculine Greek noun (fide Brown, 1956) then Typhloscolex must be masculine. However, Treadwell (1943 with 'paucichaeta') and Friedrich (1950 with 'robusta') appear to have incorrectly created adjectival species names with feminine suffixes. [details]Unreviewed
Type species Type species T. muelleri Busch 1851 in Fauchald, 1977<246>. [details]