WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Erséus, C. (1990). The marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) of the barrier reef ecosystems at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, and other parts of the Caribbean Sea, with descriptions of twenty-seven new species and revision of Heterodrilus, Thalassodrilides and Smithsonidrilus. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 19(3): 243-303., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1990.tb00259.x [details] Available for editors [request]
Othercontext source (HKRMS)
Hallett, S. L.; Erseus, C.; Lester, R. J. G. (1997). Actinosporea from Hong Kong marine Oligochaeta. <em>In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China (ed. Morton, B.). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China IV, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.</em> 1-7. [details]
additional source
Erseus, C. (1997). Additional notes on the taxonomy of the marine Oligochaeta of Hong Kong, with a description of a new species of Tubificidae. <em>In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the Eighth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China IV. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.</em> 37-50., available online at https://lib.hku.hk/Press/9622094376.pdf [details]
Holotype USNM 127646, geounit Twin Cays [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range intertidal and barely subtidal [details]
Distribution Hong Kong, Belize [details]
Etymology The species epithet geminus is Latin for 'of double nature' and 'twin', here referring to both the penial setae (generally one on each side of worm. making one pair of penial setae), and the location of the type locality (Twin Cays). [details]
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