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Vrijenhoekia balaenophila Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008

743812  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:743812)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Phyllodocida (Order)
  7. Nereidiformia (Suborder)
  8. Hesionidae (Family)
  9. Psamathinae (Subfamily)
  10. Vrijenhoekia (Genus)
  11. Vrijenhoekia balaenophila (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W.; Ruta, Christine; Wiklund, Helena; Nygren, Arne. (2008). <i>Vrijenhoekia balaenophila</i>, a new hesionid polychaete from a whale fall off California. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 152(4): 625-634., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00360.x
page(s): 627 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Holotype  SMNH 6305, verbatimGeounit Monterey Canyon,...  
Holotype SMNH 6305, verbatimGeounit Monterey Canyon, off... [details]
, Note Monterey Canyon, off California, 36° 36.8′...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Monterey Canyon, off California, 36° 36.8′ N, 122° 26.0′ W (36.6133°, -122.4333°), 2891 m. [details]
Etymology Named for its affinity to whale bones.  
Etymology Named for its affinity to whale bones. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Vrijenhoekia balaenophila Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=743812 on 2024-04-16
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2013-11-06 00:53:35Z
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Read, Geoffrey
2023-09-14 21:31:14Z
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original description Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W.; Ruta, Christine; Wiklund, Helena; Nygren, Arne. (2008). <i>Vrijenhoekia balaenophila</i>, a new hesionid polychaete from a whale fall off California. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 152(4): 625-634., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00360.x
page(s): 627 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

context source (Deepsea) Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W.; Ruta, Christine; Wiklund, Helena; Nygren, Arne. (2008). <i>Vrijenhoekia balaenophila</i>, a new hesionid polychaete from a whale fall off California. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 152(4): 625-634., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00360.x [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
Holotype SMNH 6305, verbatimGeounit Monterey Canyon, off... [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis As for genus: Apomorphies: Three pairs of large glandular lip pads surrounding mouth opening, papilla-shaped neuropodial lobes on segment 3, very long dorsal cirri, and growth pattern with up to about 35 segments whereafter segments increase in size but no new segments are added. [details]

Etymology Named for its affinity to whale bones. [details]

Habitat On sunken whale bones, together with Osedax siboglinids. Known only from the type locality on a grey whale carcass at 2891 m depth in Monterey Canyon off California [details]

Type locality Monterey Canyon, off California, 36° 36.8′ N, 122° 26.0′ W (36.6133°, -122.4333°), 2891 m. [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) 
To GenBank (50 nucleotides; 21 proteins) 

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