original description
Pettibone, Marian H. (1976). Revision of the genus <i>Macellicephala</i> McIntosh and the subfamily Macellicephalinae Hartmann-Schröder (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 229: 1-71., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.229
page(s): 55 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
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 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis (after Barnich & Fiege) Prostomium without antennae. Pharynx with two pairs of jaws and seven pairs of border papillae of the same size. Without branchiae. Parapodia subbiramous. Noto- and neurochaetae prsent. Noto- and neuropodia with elongate acicular lobe. [details]