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Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Fauvel, P. 1940. Annélides Polychètes de la Haute-Adriatique. Thalassia, Jena, 4(1): 1-24. page(s): 18, figure 4; note: Haute Adriatique, Rovigno [details]
additional source
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. page(s): 339; note: Checklist listing, using the spelling 'coeca' [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) note: checklist [details]
Unknown type MNHN, geounit Adriatic Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated. However, Fauvel makes reference more than once to the absence of eyes, and 'caecus' (Fauvel used the coeca spelling) means blind in Latin. A caecum (plural caeca) is also a blind sac in an intestine, but this is not the usage here. [details]
Spelling Fauvel used the spelling coeca. There was no diphthong. The spellings 'coeca' and 'caeca' are regarded as identical for the purposes of homonymy. However, an original spelling as 'coeca' must be retained and cannot be changed to 'caeca' in subsequent works. The Hartman catalogue (p.339) correctly uses the spelling Arabella coeca. [details]
Type specimen Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, POLY TYPE 665 [details]
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