| Leslie, I can easily imagine that you've seen so many worms in your career you don't have instant recall of every one! Well, you're going to get a look at my guy, anyway, as I had already shipped him off before I read your post. He's supposed to arrive by noon today (Friday). Hope he's still in one piece and alive when he gets there... Thanks for the ID! A couple of days ago I did a lot of searching on P. aurifera but could find no images or descriptions... It's sort of reassuring to know that I didn't see the scales because they weren't there!  And yes, thanks for the clarification of the family relations. Very helpful! (BTW--several other stunning pics at your Flickr page as well!) Cheers, --Diane PS: These were a couple of refs I found: This one says P. aurifera's in the Red Sea: http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/abteilung/aquazool/mev2/wehe_&_fiege.pdf And I thought this one was interesting--see excerpt below: http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/2557_z04n3a2.pdf Excerpt: Lamarck, although originally a botanist, was appointed professor in zoology at MNHN in 1793. A number of his polychaete types were actually collected by Savigny, who was one of the naturalists on Napoléon’s campaign to Egypt in 1798. Savigny wrote a manuscript that included these descriptions, and which formed the basis of many of Lamarck’s descriptions. These descriptions were published also by Savigny in Description de l’Égypte, but due to uncertainties relating to the actual date of his contributions, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1987) took the decision that the relevant parts were issued in 1822. Lamarck’s descriptions thereby have priority over Savigny’s, and the former should therefore be referred to as author of the taxa. If considered appropriate, the specification “Savigny in Lamarck” may be used to credit Savigny’s input. Not many of Lamarck’s types remain: Clymene amphistoma, Glycera unicornis, Hermione hystrix, the aforementioned Hesione splendida, Ophelia bicornis, Palmyra aurifera, which was relatively recently transferred from Chrysopetalidae to Aphroditidae by Watson Russell (1989),
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