WoRMS taxon details
Paralvinella bactericola Desbruyères & Laubier, 1991
330305 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:330305)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Desbruyères, D. and Laubier, L. 1991. Systematics, phylogeny, ecology and distribution of the Alvinellidae (Polychaeta) from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Ophelia supplement 5 (Systematics, Biology and Morphology of World Polychaeta): 31-45.
page(s): 36 [details]
page(s): 36 [details]
Holotype USNM 101457
, Note Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California
Holotype USNM 101457 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California [details]
Etymology 'bactericola' from bacterium and 'incola', lives in.
Nomenclature Paralvinella bactericola was first used in Desbruyères & Laubier (1989). But there it is a nomen nudum. This is known,...
Etymology 'bactericola' from bacterium and 'incola', lives in. [details]
Nomenclature Paralvinella bactericola was first used in Desbruyères & Laubier (1989). But there it is a nomen nudum. This is known,...
Nomenclature Paralvinella bactericola was first used in Desbruyères & Laubier (1989). But there it is a nomen nudum. This is known, and the date is correctly cited as 1991 in Desbruyères, Segonzac & Bright (2006) Handbook of Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Paralvinella bactericola Desbruyères & Laubier, 1991. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=330305 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
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Desbruyères, D. and Laubier, L. 1991. Systematics, phylogeny, ecology and distribution of the Alvinellidae (Polychaeta) from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Ophelia supplement 5 (Systematics, Biology and Morphology of World Polychaeta): 31-45.
page(s): 36 [details]
page(s): 36 [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Desbruyères, D. and Laubier, L. 1989. Paralvinella hessleri, new species of Alvinellidae (Polychaeta) from the Mariana Back-Arc Basin hydrothermal vents. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 102(3): 761-767.
page(s): 761 [details]
additional source Desbruyères, D. and Laubier, L. 1989. Paralvinella hessleri, new species of Alvinellidae (Polychaeta) from the Mariana Back-Arc Basin hydrothermal vents. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 102(3): 761-767.
page(s): 761 [details]





Holotype USNM 101457 [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology 'bactericola' from bacterium and 'incola', lives in. [details]Nomenclature Paralvinella bactericola was first used in Desbruyères & Laubier (1989). But there it is a nomen nudum. This is known, and the date is correctly cited as 1991 in Desbruyères, Segonzac & Bright (2006) Handbook of Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna. [details]
Specimen Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Paratype (UB 585) [details]
Type locality Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California [details]