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WoRMS taxon detailsRiftia pachyptila Jones, 1981
266010 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266010)
accepted
Species
marine,
recent only
Jones, Meredith L. (1981). Riftia pachyptila, new genus, new species, the vestimentiferan worm from the Galápagos Rift geothermal vents (Pogonophora. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 93(4): 1295-1313., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34600182 [details]
Holotype USNM 59951, geounit Galapagos
Holotype USNM 59951, geounit Galapagos [details] Unreviewed
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Galapagos Rift Zone [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Riftia pachyptila Jones, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266010 on 2025-05-07
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
Jones, Meredith L. (1981). Riftia pachyptila, new genus, new species, the vestimentiferan worm from the Galápagos Rift geothermal vents (Pogonophora. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 93(4): 1295-1313., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34600182 [details] Othercontext source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details] biology source Jones, Meredith L. (1985). Vestimentiferan pogonophores: Their biology and affinities. <em>[Book chapter].</em> in S. Conway Morris, J.D. George, R. Gibson and H.M. Platt eds., The Origins and Relationships of Lower Invertebrates. The Systematics Association Special Volume 28: Oxford, Clarendon Press, p. 327-342. [details] Available for editors  [request] Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Habitat abyssal [details]Habitat at hydrothermal vents [details] Type locality Pacific Ocean, Galapagos Rift Zone [details]
To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Riftia pachyptila) To GenBank (1173 nucleotides; 348 proteins) To NHM UK Zoology Collection To NMNH Extant Collection (Vent Worm Project: JW_10_27_2014) To NMNH Extant Collection (Vent Worm Project: JW_10_27_2014) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (230 records) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (Holotype USNM 59951) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Vestimentifera Collection To ITIS |
