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original descriptionLamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879 page(s): 316 [details]
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redescriptionCosta, Dimítri de Araújo; Christoffersen, Martin L. (2017 [2016 issue, but unpublished until 2017]). Revision and global distribution of Hesione splendida (Annelida, Polychaeta, Hesionidae). <em>Gaia Scientia.</em> 10(4): 166-172., available online athttp://www.okara.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/gaia/article/view/25695 note: redescription of the type [details]
redescriptionImajima, Minoru. (2003). Polychaetous Annelids from Sagami Bay and Sagami Sea collected by the Emperor Showa of Japan and deposited at the Showa Memorial Institute, National Science Museum, Tokyo (II). Orders included within the Phyllodocida, Amphinomida, Spintherida and Eunicida. <em>National Science Museum Monographs.</em> 23: 1-221., available online athttps://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004708004[details] Available for editors
redescriptionSalazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2018). Revision of Hesione Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida, Errantia, Hesionidae). <em>Zoosystema.</em> 40(3): 227-325., available online athttp://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/40/12 page(s): 309, figures 52-54; note: redescription and designation of a Lectotype from Gulf of Suez. [details] Available for editors
redescriptionSavigny, Jules-César. (1822). Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. <em>Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des Observations et des Recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'Expédition de l'Armée Française, publié par les Ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand, Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 1(3):1–128., available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41329897 page(s): 40; note: fuller description than in Lamarck, with figures (plate 3, figure 3) [details]
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