WoRMS taxon details

Poeobius meseres Heath, 1930

330855  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:330855)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Heath, Harold. (1930). A connecting link between the Annelida and the Echiuroidea (Gephyrea armata). <em>Journal of Morphology.</em> 49(1): 223-249., available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.1050490106 [details]   
Note Pacific Ocean, Monterey Bay, California  
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Monterey Bay, California [details]
Etymology Heath gives an etymology for genus & species from Greek, and 'meseres' he says means intermediate.   
Etymology Heath gives an etymology for genus & species from Greek, and 'meseres' he says means intermediate.  [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Poeobius meseres Heath, 1930. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=330855 on 2024-04-19
Date
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2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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original description Heath, Harold. (1930). A connecting link between the Annelida and the Echiuroidea (Gephyrea armata). <em>Journal of Morphology.</em> 49(1): 223-249., available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.1050490106 [details]   

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 Hartman, Olga. (1955). Endemism in the North Pacific Ocean, with emphasis on the distribution of marine annelids, and descriptions of new or little known species. pp. 39-60. In: Allan, Hancock Foundation (Ed.). <em>Essays in the Natural Sciences in Honor of Captain Allan Hancock on the occasion of his birthday July 26, 1955.</em> Los Angeles, University of Southern California Press., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5227326
page(s): 52-54, plate 1 fig. 6 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Burnette, Adriene B.; Struck, Torsten H.; Halanych, Kenneth M. (2005). Holopelagic <i>Poeobius meseres</i> (Poeobiidae, Annelida) is derived from benthic flabelligerid worms. <em>The Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole).</em> 208(3): 213-220., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3593153 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

status source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2008). Review of <i>Poeobius meseres</i> Heath, 1930 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae). <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 49(2): 191-200., available online at https://dx.doi.org/10.21411/CBM.A.6FB6F3A2 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

ecology source Seid, Charlotte A.; Lindsay, Dhugal J.; Rouse, Greg W. (2020). A new southern record of the holopelagic annelid Poeobius meseres Heath, 1930 (Flabelligeridae). <em>Biodiversity Data Journal.</em> 8 (e58655): 1-12., available online at https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/58655/list/9/ [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

ecology source McGowan, J. A. (1960). The relationship of the distribution of the planktonic worm, Poeobius meseres Heath, to the water masses of the North Pacific. <em>Deep Sea Research.</em> 6(2): 125-139., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0146-6313(59)90064-4
note: distribution for North Pacific Ocean & reports a few Poeobius records for the Southern Hemisphere, off Ecuador, about 3-4 degrees South of the equator [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

ecology source Uttal, L. & K.R. Buck. (1996). Dietary study of the midwater polychaete Poeobius meseres in Monterey Bay, California. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 125 (2): 333-343., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00346314 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Etymology Heath gives an etymology for genus & species from Greek, and 'meseres' he says means intermediate.  [details]

From other sources
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Monterey Bay, California [details]