Deep-Sea source details
Author's correction to Hesione key triplet 6 as follows:
6. Anterior eyes circular ............................................................................................................................. 7
- Anterior eyes wider than long (instead of "as wide as long") ................................................................ 11
- Anterior eyes longer than wide (instead of "as long as wide"); dorsal surface smooth or with tubercles arranged into longitudinal series, at least along posterior chaetigers .................................. H. fitzhughi n. sp.
Hesione pantherina Risso, 1826 (redescription)
Hesione splendida Lamarck, 1818 (redescription)
Live pigmentation as follows: Body with dorsal, longitudinal, irregular, subcontinuous wide brown bands over a ... [details]
Pigmentation is important for identification and distinguising live Hesione from diver images where there is no ... [details]
Sri Lanka throughout the Western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea, in intertidal to shallow subtidal bottoms (10 ... [details]
Western Indian Ocean, from the Red Sea and Persian Gulf to Madagascar. Widely recorded due to superseded past ... [details]
Hesione is assumed named for the unfortunate Trojan princess known from Greek mythology. However Lamarck is silent ... [details]
named H. beneliahuae honoring the late Dr M. Nechama Ben-Eliahu. [details]
named H. fitzhughi after Kirk Fitzhugh, Curator of Polychaeta in the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles [details]
named H. harrisae after Leslie Harris, Collection Manager of the Allan Hancock Polychaete Collection, in the Los ... [details]
named H. hartmanae after Olga Hartman who had examined specimens of the species [details]
named H. helenensis after Saint Helena Island in the South Atlantic, which is the type locality. The island is ... [details]
Named H. horsti after Dr R. Horst, from the Leiden Museum, Netherlands who originally examined Siboga polychaetes [details]
named H. keablei after Stephen Keable, Curator of Marine Annelids, Australian Museum, Sydney [details]
named H. mooreae after Jenna Moore, from the University of Florida, Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida [details]
named Hesione osbornae after Karen Osborn, Curator of Crustacea and Polychaeta in the National Museum of Natural ... [details]
named Hesione paulayi after Gustav Paulay, Curator of Malacology and Marine Invertebrates, Florida Museum of ... [details]
named Hesione uchidai after Dr Hiro’omi Uchida, who first illustrated the pigmentation pattern (as H. cf. ehlersi) [details]
Neotype, ZMH-P 9951, Trincomalee, Northeastern Sri Lanka, designated by Salazar-Vallejo (2018) [details]
Neotype, MNHNIA-TYPE1850 (formerly jar 70.190b), Mer de Nice, labeled in 1868, no further data, created by ... [details]
Neotype designated by Salazar-Vallejo (2018), ZMB 7529, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, collected in Naples by G. ... [details]
Hesione sicula Delle Chiaje 1830 first was published only as a small poorly drawn body figure 24 in plate 82 of ... [details]
Synonymy to Hesione splendida confirmed by Salazar-Vallejo (2018) based on examination of syntypes of H. ehlersi, ... [details]
Formerly a synonym of Hesione splendida also from the Indian Ocean and Red Sea, but resurrected by Salazar-Vallejo ... [details]
Saint-Leu, (Kelonia in Google Maps) Reunion Island, -21.1533, 55.2811, 6-15 m. This geolocation plots as an ... [details]
Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka, with neotype of Salazar-Vallejo (2018) from Trincomalee, Northeastern ... [details]
Brampton Island, offshore north of Mackay, Queensland, Australia, no geolocation given, estimated as -20.800, 149.273 [details]
Cabo Rojo Light, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, no geolocation given, estimated as 18.202, -67.153 [details]
off Marchena (Bindloe) Island, Galapagos Islands, 27 m, RV Velero III, Sta. 310, 0.3056, -90.5167 ... [details]
James Bay, Saint Helena Island, South East Atlantic, no geolocation given but estimated as -15.923, -5.720. ... [details]
Timor Leste (East Timor), South East coast, RV Siboga Exped. Stat. 285 -8.6517, 127.0733 (08°39.1’S, ... [details]
June Reef, Northern Queensland, Australia, -14.2833, 143.7667 (14°17’S, 143°46’E), depth not stated [details]
Mahama Island, near Farasan Island, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea, 6.4892, 41.9443, 4-17 m [details]
North Balabac Strait, RV Albatross, Sta. D5355, geolocation not stated, estimated at 8.159, 117.077, 80 m depth. ... [details]
North West coast of Misima Island, 1.6 km NW of Pt. Ebola, Milne Bay Province, Louisiade Archipelago, Solomon Sea, ... [details]
Original specimen and neotype are from Naples area, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. [details]
Gulf of Suez, Red Sea, centred at 28.75 N, 33.0 E. Lamarck (1818: 317) states "Habite la mer Rouge, et se trouve à ... [details]
West side Bonito Island (Culebra Island in Google maps), Verde Island Channel, Mabini, Batangas Province, ... [details]
The holotype is the only specimen known [details]
known only from 2 specimens collected together. [details]
Earlier it was believed there was no type material remaining (Fide Pleijel, 1998: 159), however Solis-Weiss et al ... [details]
