Megalomma pacificum Johansson, 1927

Gil, Joao & Nishi, Eijiroh, 2017, Nomenclatural checklist for Acromegalomma species (Annelida, Sabellidae), a nomen novum replacement for the junior homonym Megalomma Johansson, 1926, ZooKeys 677, pp. 131-150 : 140-141

Megalomma pacificum Johansson, 1927

Megalomma pacifica [sic] Johansson 1927: 130-131, textfig. 15.11.

Type locality.

Syntypes collected at Aranuka Island, outside the coral reef (0.14°, 173.56°; estimated geolocation), and Tapeteuea (= Tabiteuea) Island, inside the lagoon (-1.5°, 175.0°; estimated geolocation), both at Gilbert Islands, Kiribati, Pacific Ocean.

Remarks.

According to Fitzhugh (2002), Megalomma pacificum Johansson, 1927 probably belongs to the genus Demonax Kinberg, 1867 (a name recently replaced by Parasabella Bush, 1905 due to homonymy; see Tovar-Hernández and Harris 2010). The fact that the holotype has dried out ( Knight-Jones 1997) and that the species has a remote type locality have likely prevented a formal redescription. The species was not included in the Parasabella species list given by Tovar-Hernández and Harris (2010), but its possible inclusion in Parasabella has been implicitly accepted by subsequent authors ( Capa and Murray 2009, Tovar-Hernández and Carrera-Parra 2011).