original description
Blake, James A. (1985). Polychaeta from the vicinity of deep-sea geothermal vents in the eastern Pacific. I: Euphrosinidae, Phyllodocidae, Hesionidae, Nereididae, Glyceridae, Dorvilleidae, Orbiniidae and Maldanidae. <em>Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 6: 67-101., available online at https://bit.ly/31jOeWn
page(s): 75 [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source
Rouse, Greg W.; Carvajal, Jose Ignacio; Pleijel, Fredrik. (2018). Phylogeny of Hesionidae (Aciculata, Annelida), with four new species from deep-sea eastern Pacific methane seeps, and resolution of the affinity of <i>Hesiolyra</i>. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 32(5): 1050-1068., available online at http://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IS17092
page(s): 1053; note: moved Hesiolyra to Gyptini from monotypic Hesiolyrini [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source
Wang, Zhi; Xu, Ting; Zhang, Yanjie; Zhou, Yadong; Liu, Zhensheng; Chen, Chong; Watanabe, Hiromi Kayama; Qiu, Jian-Wen. (2020). Molecular phylogenetic and morphological analyses of the 'monospecific' Hesiolyra (Annelida: Hesionidae) reveal two new species. <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.</em> 166: 103401: 1-14., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063720301886 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology Hesiolyra is named from the family name Hesionidae coupled with "lyra" from the Greek stringed instrument and refers here to the lyrate chaetae. Gender is feminine. [details]
Grammatical gender feminine as designated by Blake (1985:75) [details]