Chloeia egena Grube, 1855 Indeterminable

Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., 2023, Revision of Chloeia Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida, Amphinomidae), Zootaxa 5238 (1), pp. 1-134 : 41

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.