Nomenclature
original description
Hartman, O. (1969). Atlas of the sedentariate polychaetous annelids from California. 1-812. Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California. Los Angeles.
page(s): 286 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2007). Revision of <i>Flabelliderma</i> Hartman, 1969 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae). <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 41(33-36): 2037-2061., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930701536443
page(s): Generic revision [details] Available for editors
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Identification resource
identification resource
Karhan, S. Ü.; Simboura, N.; Salazar Vallejo, Sergio I. 2012. Flabelliderma cinari (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae), a new species from the Eastern Mediterranean. Mediterranean Marine Science 13(2): 175-178
page(s): 177 [key to genus] [details]
Other
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Etymology No etymology is stated. Flabellum is fan in Latin and derma is Greek for skin. Salazar-Vallejo (2007:2039) suggested that Hartman was perhaps indicating the difference in the body wall from Flabelligera because of the formation of dorsal tubercles and fused larger tubercles, but while the use of the word 'derma' is logical, it is unclear why she retained 'flabellum'. It may have been simply to maintain the connection with the stem of the original 'Flabelligera' genus name, as Salazar-Vallejo later did with his new genera Flabesymbios, Flabegraviera, and Flabehlersia. [details]
Taxonomy Hartman's naming of Flabelliderma becomes not straightforward because of the type species she chose. Hartman (1969:286) included two new combinations in Flabelliderma. First Flabelliderma essenbergae (Hartman, 1961), originally a replacement name of hers in Flabelligera for Stylarioides papillosa Essenberg, 1922, a name junior to Siphonostoma papillosum Grube, 1840, which Hartman wrongly (fide Salazar-Vallejo) thought was also a Flabelligera (see Hartman Catalogue p.416 where she tags Flabelligera papillosa (Essenberg) as a homonym despite not also listing Grube's papillosa as a Flabelligera (it is listed under Siphonostoma Rathke [sic] which she refers to Flabelligera. Later Salazar-Vallejo (2011: 169) places Siphonostoma papillosum Grube, 1840 as a Stylarioides, a junior synonym of Stylarioides monilifer delle Chiaje, 1831, thus removing the secondary homonymy. Secondly. Hartman (1969) included Flabelligera commensalis Moore, 1909 in Flabelliderma. [details]