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Pelogenia arenosa (Delle Chiaje, 1830)
Sigalion arenosum Delle Chiaje, 1830, pl. 80: figs. 4, 5, 16, 18, 22; 1841:58, 107, pl. 98: figs. 4, 5, 16, 18, 22.
Sigalion herminiae Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832:443, pl. 8: figs. 1–6; 1834:107, pl. 1: figs. 1–6.
Psammolyce herminiae.—Quatrefages, 1866:283.
Psammolyce arenosa.—Claparède, 1868:412, pl. 5: fig. 3A–M.—Saint-Joseph, 1906:150, pl. 1: figs. 7–23; pl. 2: figs. 24–31.—Rioja, 1918:21.—Fauvel, 1923:106, fig. 40a-m.—Campoy, 1982:87.—Kirkegaard, 1983:198.—Not Augener, 1933:193 [= Neopsammolyce floccifera].—Not Hartman, 1944:14 [= Pelogenia fimbriata and Neopsammolyce floccifera].
Psammolyce sp. Muir, 1989:342 [for Sigalion herminiae].
DISTRIBUTION.—Mediterranean Sea: Italy, Tunisia; English Channel: Channel Islands; North Atlantic Ocean: France, Canary Islands; intertidal to 12 meters.
- bibliographic citation
- Pettibone, Marian H. 1997. "Revision of the sigalionid species (Polychaeta) referred to Psammolyce Kinberg, 1856, Pelogenia Schmarda, 1861, and belonging to the Subfamily Pelogeniinae Chamberlin, 1919." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-89. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.581
