WoRMS taxon details
Flabesymbios roberti Salazar-Vallejo, 2012
598772 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:598772)
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Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2012). Revision of <i>Flabelligera</i> Sars, 1829 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3203(1): 1-64., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3203.1.1 [details] Available for editors 
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Holotype LACM LACM-AHF-2548, geounit Santa Catalina Island
, Note Fourth of July Cove, 33.4481°, -118.4986°...
Holotype LACM LACM-AHF-2548, geounit Santa Catalina Island [details]
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Type locality Fourth of July Cove, 33.4481°, -118.4986° (33°26'53" N, 118°29'55" W), Santa Catalina Island, California on Centrostephanus coronatus [details]
Etymology author: Flabesymbios roberti "named after Robert B. Spies, who made significant contributions to our knowledge on...
Etymology author: Flabesymbios roberti "named after Robert B. Spies, who made significant contributions to our knowledge on flabelligerids, and who studied this species (as F. commensalis) with painstaking detail, such that it might be one of the best known flabelligerids in terms of circulatory system, anterior end morphology, ciliary current patterns, and reproductive biology. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Flabesymbios roberti Salazar-Vallejo, 2012. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598772 on 2026-08-06
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Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2012). Revision of <i>Flabelligera</i> Sars, 1829 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3203(1): 1-64., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3203.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype LACM LACM-AHF-2548, geounit Santa Catalina Island [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology author: Flabesymbios roberti "named after Robert B. Spies, who made significant contributions to our knowledge on flabelligerids, and who studied this species (as F. commensalis) with painstaking detail, such that it might be one of the best known flabelligerids in terms of circulatory system, anterior end morphology, ciliary current patterns, and reproductive biology. [details]Identification Previously thought to be the same as Flabesymbio commensalis (as Flabelligera commensalis) [details]
Type locality Fourth of July Cove, 33.4481°, -118.4986° (33°26'53" N, 118°29'55" W), Santa Catalina Island, California on Centrostephanus coronatus [details]
