WoRMS taxon details
Semnoderes pacificus Higgins, 1967
265093 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:265093)
accepted
Species
marine
Higgins, R. P. (1967). The Kinorhyncha of New-Caledonia. <em>Expédition Française sur les Recifs coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie 2. Éditions de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris.</em> 75-90. [details] Available for editors 
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Holotype USNM W33181, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive...
Holotype USNM W33181, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Etymology [The species was named after the ocean in which it was found, the Pacific Ocean.]
Etymology [The species was named after the ocean in which it was found, the Pacific Ocean.] [details]
Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Semnoderes pacificus Higgins, 1967. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=265093 on 2025-10-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Higgins, R. P. (1967). The Kinorhyncha of New-Caledonia. <em>Expédition Française sur les Recifs coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie 2. Éditions de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris.</em> 75-90. [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
[request]basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
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context source (CCZ)
Sánchez, N.; González-Casarrubios, A.; Cepeda, D.; Khodami, S.; Pardos, F.; Vink, A.; Martínez Arbizu, P. (2022). Diversity and distribution of Kinorhyncha in abyssal polymetallic nodule areas of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone and the Peru Basin, East Pacific Ocean, with the description of three new species and notes on their intraspecific variation. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 52, 52, 1-37., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-022-01279-z [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Neuhaus, B. (2013). 5. Kinorhyncha (= Echinodera). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 1: Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin,. pp. 181-348. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110272536.181 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Sørensen, M. V.; Landers, S. C. (2018). New species of Semnoderidae (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida: Kentrorhagata) from the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 48(1): 327-355., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0728-x
note: Morphology: p. 345, fig. 12. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Neuhaus, B. (2013). 5. Kinorhyncha (= Echinodera). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 1: Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin,. pp. 181-348. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110272536.181 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sørensen, M. V.; Landers, S. C. (2018). New species of Semnoderidae (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida: Kentrorhagata) from the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 48(1): 327-355., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0728-x
note: Morphology: p. 345, fig. 12. [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Allotype USNM W33182, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Holotype USNM W33181, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype MNB ZMB 11282, geounit Clarion Clipperton Zone [details]
Nontype MNB ZMB 12283, geounit Clarion Clipperton Zone [details]
Nontype Private uncatalogued, geounit Gulf of Lions (not certain) [details]
Nontype USNM 1556640, 1556641, geounit Redondo Beach [details]
Nontype ZMUC ZMUC-KIN-148, geounit Bocas del Toro (not certain) [details]
Paratype USNM 1209755, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype USNM 1209756, 1209757, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype USNM 1209758, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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Etymology [The species was named after the ocean in which it was found, the Pacific Ocean.] [details]
