WoRMS taxon details
Harmothoe mexicana Chamberlin, 1919
328258 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:328258)
accepted
Species
Lagisca mexicana (Chamberlin, 1919) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 54-58, Plate 1 figs 1-9; Plate 2 figure 1 [details]
page(s): 54-58, Plate 1 figs 1-9; Plate 2 figure 1 [details]
Type locality contained in Mexican Exclusive Economic Zone
, Note Offshore of western Mexico, South of Isla...
type locality contained in Mexican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Type locality Offshore of western Mexico, South of Isla Maria Magdalena, station 342521.316667 N, -106.4 W. Depth 680 fathoms, several specimens. Chamberlin also had a specimen from station 3430 (lat. 23° 10' N., long., 107° 31' W.). Depth, 852 fathoms. He does not designate types, thus his specimens are all syntypes, regardless if curators assigned them differently. [details]
Type material Any type material must be syntypes as no one has designated a lectotype. Tovar-Hernández et al (2026) goes through the various comments on types which include type and paratype designations done arbitrarily post hoc. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Harmothoe mexicana Chamberlin, 1919. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=328258 on 2026-03-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 54-58, Plate 1 figs 1-9; Plate 2 figure 1 [details]
page(s): 54-58, Plate 1 figs 1-9; Plate 2 figure 1 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Tovar-Hernández, María Ana.; Salazar-Silva, Patricia; Cruz-Barraza, José Antonio; Hendrickx, Michel E. (2026). Redescription of <i>Harmothoe mexicana</i> Chamberlin, (Polychaeta: Polynoidae), a deep-sea scale worm associated with Hexactinellida sponges. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 60(5-8): 353-364., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222933.2025.2607611
page(s): 355-360; note: returned to original combination from most recently placed as Lagisca mexicana and previously as Lagisca multisetosa [details] Available for editors
[request]
status source Salazar-Silva, Patricia. (2006). Gusanos escamosos (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) del Pacífico mexicano y de otras localidades del Pacífico oriental [Scaleworms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from the Mexican Pacific and some other eastern Pacific sites]. <i>Investigaciones Marinas Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso</i>. 34(2): 143-161., available online at http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0717-71782006000200014&script=sci_arttext
page(s): 149; note: recombined to Lagisca [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 355-360; note: returned to original combination from most recently placed as Lagisca mexicana and previously as Lagisca multisetosa [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Salazar-Silva, Patricia. (2006). Gusanos escamosos (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) del Pacífico mexicano y de otras localidades del Pacífico oriental [Scaleworms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from the Mexican Pacific and some other eastern Pacific sites]. <i>Investigaciones Marinas Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso</i>. 34(2): 143-161., available online at http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0717-71782006000200014&script=sci_arttext
page(s): 149; note: recombined to Lagisca [details] Available for editors
[request]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 Fauchald, K. (1972). Benthic polychaetous annelids from deep water off western Mexico and adjacent areas in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 7: 1-575., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/6207
page(s): 24-25 [details]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1972). Benthic polychaetous annelids from deep water off western Mexico and adjacent areas in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 7: 1-575., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/6207
page(s): 24-25 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type locality Offshore of western Mexico, South of Isla Maria Magdalena, station 342521.316667 N, -106.4 W. Depth 680 fathoms, several specimens. Chamberlin also had a specimen from station 3430 (lat. 23° 10' N., long., 107° 31' W.). Depth, 852 fathoms. He does not designate types, thus his specimens are all syntypes, regardless if curators assigned them differently. [details]Type material Any type material must be syntypes as no one has designated a lectotype. Tovar-Hernández et al (2026) goes through the various comments on types which include type and paratype designations done arbitrarily post hoc. [details]
