WoRMS taxon details
Hesione ceylonica Grube, 1874
340178 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:340178)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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] 
Type locality contained in Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone , Note Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka,...
type locality contained in Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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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]
Description Live pigmentation as follows: Body with dorsal, longitudinal, irregular, subcontinuous wide brown bands over a whitish,...
Distribution Sri Lanka throughout the Western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea, in intertidal to shallow subtidal bottoms (10 m...
Taxonomy Formerly a synonym of Hesione splendida also from the Indian Ocean and Red Sea, but resurrected by Salazar-Vallejo (2018)
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...
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]
Taxonomy Formerly a synonym of Hesione splendida also from the Indian Ocean and Red Sea, but resurrected by Salazar-Vallejo (2018)
Taxonomy Formerly a synonym of Hesione splendida also from the Indian Ocean and Red Sea, but resurrected by Salazar-Vallejo (2018) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Hesione ceylonica Grube, 1874. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=340178 on 2024-05-01
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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
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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
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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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]
