Revision of Chloeia Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida, Amphinomidae)
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Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
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Chloeia egena
Grube, 1855
Indeterminable
Chloeia egena
Grube, 1855: 23–24
;
de Quatrefages 1866: 391–392
;
Hartman 1959: 131
.
Remarks
.
Chloeia egena
Grube, 1855
was proposed with a poorly preserved specimen deposited in
Saint-Petersburg
,
Russia
. The specific name,
egena
, means deprived of, missing, poor. The name might be derived of the lack of dorsal pigmentation of the
type
specimen, as indicated in the description (
Grube 1855: 91
), or because of the lack of denticulation of notochaetae (
Grube 1855: 92
). However, this smoothness was just apparent because all notochaetae were broken. This would probably explain why
Horst (1910: 172)
regarded
C. egena
as indeterminable, or that
Benham (1916: 392)
concluded that “it would be better to drop this latter name entirely” and
Augener (1924: 259)
shared this perspective. Because the
type
locality is unknown, there is no means to solve this, and the species name must be regarded as indeterminable.