Deep-Sea taxon details
original description
Summers, Mindi; Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W. (2015). Whale falls, multiple colonisations of the deep, and the phylogeny of Hesionidae (Annelida). <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 29(2): 105-123., available online at https://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IS14055 page(s): 120 [details] Available for editors 
context source (Deepsea)
Summers, Mindi; Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W. (2015). Whale falls, multiple colonisations of the deep, and the phylogeny of Hesionidae (Annelida). <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 29(2): 105-123., available online at https://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IS14055 [details] Available for editors 
status source
Kroesche, Rachel; Rouse, Greg W. (2025). Four New Species of Hesionidae (Annelida, Polychaeta, Phyllodocida) from Eastern Pacific Chemosynthetic Habitats and Reinstatement of Vrijenhoekia. <em>Diversity.</em> 17(2: 121): 1-30., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/2/121 page(s): 5 of 30, figure 1; note: returned from Sirsoe upon re-validation of Vrijenhoekia [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype SIO SIO-BIC A2345, geounit Monterey Bay [details]
From editor or global species database
Description as for V. ketea, but differs molecularly [details]
Etymology Authors: "Falenothiras (Greek for ‘whale hunter’)" [details]
Type locality Monterey Canyon, off California, on grey whale carcass, 36.6133, -122.4333 (36 36.80 N, 122 26.00 W), 2893 m depth [details]
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