WoRMS taxon details
original description
Rao, G. Chandrasekhara 1978. On a new species of Hesionides (Polychaeta: Hesionidae) from Orissa coast, India. Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India, 1(3): 271-274. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype ZSI An 921/1, geounit Bay of Bengal [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Author: Hesionides similis is named for "the similar characters it shares with H. peculiaris." [details]
Type locality Gopalpur Beach,19.2455, 84.8964 (corrected to be coastal but in text reported as 19° 15' 12" N, 84° 53' 20" E), Orissa coast, India, near Brahmapur. [details]
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