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Polychaeta taxon detailsHesione Lamarck, 1818
129308 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129308)
accepted
Genus
Hesione splendida Lamarck, 1818 (type by subsequent designation)
Fallacia Quatrefages, 1866 · unaccepted (homonym, subjective synonym)
marine,
recent only
feminine
Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 315 [details]
Etymology Lamarck and Savigny are silent on the etymology. Hesione is assumed named for the Trojan princess known from Greek...
Etymology Lamarck and Savigny are silent on the etymology. Hesione is assumed named for the Trojan princess known from Greek mythology where she features as powerless victim in several scenarios. There is a marine element.to the stories. One version of the myths involving Hesione with the exploits of Heracles is included by Salazar-Vallejo (2017). Variants of this and others can be read at Wikipedia (eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telamon and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesione). [details] Homonymy Hesione in Lamarck (1818) in Hesionidae is available because Hesione Rafinesque, 1815 in Coleoptera is regarded as a nomen...
Homonymy Hesione in Lamarck (1818) in Hesionidae is available because Hesione Rafinesque, 1815 in Coleoptera is regarded as a nomen nudum, and appears not to have been used subsequently. There is also a subsequent junior homonym, Hesione Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 in Diptera [details] Nomenclature Costa (1841: 268) created the vernacular name of Hesione De Savigny but it is unavailable for nomenclature and is placed...
Nomenclature Costa (1841: 268) created the vernacular name of Hesione De Savigny but it is unavailable for nomenclature and is placed as a nomen nudum by Pleijel (1998:108, 158) and by Salazar-Vallejo (2018: 238) . This is unfortunate as Costa gives a beautiful colour figure of a specimen from Naples and a long description, but he forgot to create a Latin name for it. The vernacular name cannot be included in WoRMS as a potentially available species name in Hesione. However, Quatrefages (1866:111) in his 2nd volume creates the name Hesione savinii for Costa's record and describes it. See the Hesione savinii record for details. Costa (1841) had suggested his specimen might be the same as H. pantherini Risso (1826) and Salazar-Vallejo (2018) had suggested similarity to H. sicula delle Chiaje, 1830. Both species are from Golf of Naples [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Hesione Lamarck, 1818. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129308 on 2026-09-11
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original description
Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 315 [details] original description (of Fallacia Quatrefages, 1866) Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ page(s): 98 [details]  taxonomy source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2018). Revision of Hesione Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida, Errantia, Hesionidae). <em>Zoosystema.</em> 40(3): 227-325., available online at http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/40/12 [details] Available for editors  [request]additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details] From editor or global species database
Etymology Lamarck and Savigny are silent on the etymology. Hesione is assumed named for the Trojan princess known from Greek mythology where she features as powerless victim in several scenarios. There is a marine element.to the stories. One version of the myths involving Hesione with the exploits of Heracles is included by Salazar-Vallejo (2017). Variants of this and others can be read at Wikipedia (eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telamon and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesione). [details]Grammatical gender Feminine as treated as feminine by Lamarck and early subsequent authors, also likely named after a Greek female name. [details] Homonymy Hesione in Lamarck (1818) in Hesionidae is available because Hesione Rafinesque, 1815 in Coleoptera is regarded as a nomen nudum, and appears not to have been used subsequently. There is also a subsequent junior homonym, Hesione Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 in Diptera [details] Nomenclature Costa (1841: 268) created the vernacular name of Hesione De Savigny but it is unavailable for nomenclature and is placed as a nomen nudum by Pleijel (1998:108, 158) and by Salazar-Vallejo (2018: 238) . This is unfortunate as Costa gives a beautiful colour figure of a specimen from Naples and a long description, but he forgot to create a Latin name for it. The vernacular name cannot be included in WoRMS as a potentially available species name in Hesione. However, Quatrefages (1866:111) in his 2nd volume creates the name Hesione savinii for Costa's record and describes it. See the Hesione savinii record for details. Costa (1841) had suggested his specimen might be the same as H. pantherini Risso (1826) and Salazar-Vallejo (2018) had suggested similarity to H. sicula delle Chiaje, 1830. Both species are from Golf of Naples [details] Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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