WoRMS name details
Levensteiniella iris Hourdez & Desbruyères, 2003
328834 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:328834)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hourdez, Stephane and Desbruyeres, Daniel 2003. A new species of scale-worm (Polychaeta: Polynoidae), Levensteiniella iris sp. nov., from the Rainbow and Lucky Strike vent fields (Mid-Atlantic Ridge). Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 44(1): 13-21. [details]
Note North west Atlantic
Type locality North west Atlantic [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Levensteiniella iris Hourdez & Desbruyères, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=328834 on 2025-08-22
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Nomenclature
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Hourdez, Stephane and Desbruyeres, Daniel 2003. A new species of scale-worm (Polychaeta: Polynoidae), Levensteiniella iris sp. nov., from the Rainbow and Lucky Strike vent fields (Mid-Atlantic Ridge). Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 44(1): 13-21. [details]
new combination reference Hiley, A. S.; Mongiardino Koch, N.; Rouse, G. W. (2024). Phylogenetics of Lepidonotopodini (Macellicephalinae, Polynoidae, Annelida) and Comparative Mitogenomics of Shallow-Water vs. Deep-Sea Scaleworms (Aphroditiformia). <em>Biology.</em> 13(12): 979., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/13/12/979
page(s): 19 Table 2 [details] Available for editors
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new combination reference Hiley, A. S.; Mongiardino Koch, N.; Rouse, G. W. (2024). Phylogenetics of Lepidonotopodini (Macellicephalinae, Polynoidae, Annelida) and Comparative Mitogenomics of Shallow-Water vs. Deep-Sea Scaleworms (Aphroditiformia). <em>Biology.</em> 13(12): 979., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/13/12/979
page(s): 19 Table 2 [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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type locality North west Atlantic [details]
