Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Grube, E. (1874). Descriptiones Annulatorum novorum mare Ceylonicum habitantium ab honoratissimo Holdsworth collectorum. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 42(1): 325-329., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28502470 [details] 
source of synonymy
Augener, Hermann. (1913). Polychaeta I. Errantia. 65-304. IN: Michaelsen, W. and Hartmeyer, R. (Ed.). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. <em>Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Gustav Fischer, Jena.</em> 4(5): 65-304, plates II-III., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7160888 [details]
redescription
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 page(s): 241, figures 7-9; note: Redescription, with neotype, and detailed justifications of identification as H. ceylonica [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Description Live pigmentation as follows: Body with dorsal, longitudinal, irregular, subcontinuous wide brown bands over a whitish, pinkish or purplish background, especially pigmented along posterior region. Prostomium reddish, eyes black {adapted from Salazar-Vallejo 2018 and see his figure 9 of a live specimen from Kuwait). [details]
Distribution Sri Lanka throughout the Western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea, in intertidal to shallow subtidal bottoms (10 m depth), in seaweeds (Cymodocea, Sargassum), or among pearl oysters. [details]
Neotype Neotype, ZMH-P 9951, Trincomalee, Northeastern Sri Lanka, designated by Salazar-Vallejo (2018) [details]
Taxonomy Formerly a synonym of Hesione splendida also from the Indian Ocean and Red Sea, but resurrected by Salazar-Vallejo (2018) [details]
Type locality Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka, with neotype of Salazar-Vallejo (2018) from Trincomalee, Northeastern Sri Lanka. According to Salazar-Vallejo (2018) "the original [Sri Lanka] type locality was not indicated but [specimens] might have been collected in Aripo, close to Mannar, in Northwestern Sri Lanka, because some sponges were collected from there by the same person (Bowerbank 1873)" [details]
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