WoRMS taxon details
Travisia foetida Hartman, 1969
332636 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:332636)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hartman, O. (1969). Atlas of the sedentariate polychaetous annelids from California. 1-812. Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California. Los Angeles. [details]
Note Pacific Ocean, southern California
Type locality Pacific Ocean, southern California [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Travisia foetida Hartman, 1969. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=332636 on 2026-01-19
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Nomenclature
original description
Hartman, O. (1969). Atlas of the sedentariate polychaetous annelids from California. 1-812. Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California. Los Angeles. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hobson, Katharine D. †. (1976). Notes on the benthic sedentariate Polychaeta (Annelida) from British Columbia and Washington. <em>Syesis.</em> 9: 135-142.
note: synonymized under Travisia pupa Moore by Hobson. However, Blake & Maciolek 2019, and Risso & Salazar-Vallejo, 2021 appear not to follow this placement (fide Tovar-Hernández et al 2025) [details] Available for editors
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status source Tovar-Hernández, María Ana; Burgess, Dany E.; León-González, Jesús Angel De; Hendrickx, Michel E. (2025). Travisiid worms from deep water off Western Mexico with the establishment of a new species (Annelida: Travisiidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5729(2): 349-369., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5729.2.7
page(s): 358; note: The authors reject the synonymy of T foetida with T. pupa, and include T foetida as valid in a key, but suggest further investigation is necessary into the status of T. foetida. [details] Available for editors [request]
note: synonymized under Travisia pupa Moore by Hobson. However, Blake & Maciolek 2019, and Risso & Salazar-Vallejo, 2021 appear not to follow this placement (fide Tovar-Hernández et al 2025) [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Tovar-Hernández, María Ana; Burgess, Dany E.; León-González, Jesús Angel De; Hendrickx, Michel E. (2025). Travisiid worms from deep water off Western Mexico with the establishment of a new species (Annelida: Travisiidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5729(2): 349-369., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5729.2.7
page(s): 358; note: The authors reject the synonymy of T foetida with T. pupa, and include T foetida as valid in a key, but suggest further investigation is necessary into the status of T. foetida. [details] Available for editors
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context source (Deepsea)
Fauchald, K.; Hancock, D.R. (1981). Deep-water polychaetes from a transect off central Oregon. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 11: 1-73., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3445 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Type locality Pacific Ocean, southern California [details]
