Live pigmentation as follows: Body with dorsal, longitudinal, irregular, subcontinuous wide brown bands over a ... [details]
Pigmentation is important for identification and distinguising live Hesione from diver images where there is no ... [details]
Sri Lanka throughout the Western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea, in intertidal to shallow subtidal bottoms (10 ... [details]
Western Indian Ocean, from the Red Sea and Persian Gulf to Madagascar. Widely recorded due to superseded past ... [details]
Hesione is assumed named for the unfortunate Trojan princess known from Greek mythology. However Lamarck is silent ... [details]
named H. beneliahuae honoring the late Dr M. Nechama Ben-Eliahu. [details]
named H. fitzhughi after Kirk Fitzhugh, Curator of Polychaeta in the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles [details]
named H. harrisae after Leslie Harris, Collection Manager of the Allan Hancock Polychaete Collection, in the Los ... [details]
named H. hartmanae after Olga Hartman who had examined specimens of the species [details]
named H. helenensis after Saint Helena Island in the South Atlantic, which is the type locality. The island is ... [details]
Named H. horsti after Dr R. Horst, from the Leiden Museum, Netherlands who originally examined Siboga polychaetes [details]
named H. keablei after Stephen Keable, Curator of Marine Annelids, Australian Museum, Sydney [details]
named H. mooreae after Jenna Moore, from the University of Florida, Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida [details]
named Hesione osbornae after Karen Osborn, Curator of Crustacea and Polychaeta in the National Museum of Natural ... [details]
named Hesione paulayi after Gustav Paulay, Curator of Malacology and Marine Invertebrates, Florida Museum of ... [details]
named Hesione uchidai after Dr Hiro’omi Uchida, who first illustrated the pigmentation pattern (as H. cf. ehlersi) [details]
Neotype, ZMH-P 9951, Trincomalee, Northeastern Sri Lanka, designated by Salazar-Vallejo (2018) [details]
Neotype, MNHNIA-TYPE1850 (formerly jar 70.190b), Mer de Nice, labeled in 1868, no further data, created by ... [details]
Neotype designated by Salazar-Vallejo (2018), ZMB 7529, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, collected in Naples by G. ... [details]
Hesione sicula Delle Chiaje 1830 first was published only as a small poorly drawn body figure 24 in plate 82 of ... [details]
Synonymy to Hesione splendida confirmed by Salazar-Vallejo (2018) based on examination of syntypes of H. ehlersi, ... [details]
Formerly a synonym of Hesione splendida also from the Indian Ocean and Red Sea, but resurrected by Salazar-Vallejo ... [details]
Saint-Leu, (Kelonia in Google Maps) Reunion Island, -21.1533, 55.2811, 6-15 m. This geolocation plots as an ... [details]
Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka, with neotype of Salazar-Vallejo (2018) from Trincomalee, Northeastern ... [details]
Brampton Island, offshore north of Mackay, Queensland, Australia, no geolocation given, estimated as -20.800, 149.273 [details]
Cabo Rojo Light, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, no geolocation given, estimated as 18.202, -67.153 [details]
off Marchena (Bindloe) Island, Galapagos Islands, 27 m, RV Velero III, Sta. 310, 0.3056, -90.5167 ... [details]
James Bay, Saint Helena Island, South East Atlantic, no geolocation given but estimated as -15.923, -5.720. ... [details]
Timor Leste (East Timor), South East coast, RV Siboga Exped. Stat. 285 -8.6517, 127.0733 (08°39.1’S, ... [details]
June Reef, Northern Queensland, Australia, -14.2833, 143.7667 (14°17’S, 143°46’E), depth not stated [details]
Mahama Island, near Farasan Island, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea, 6.4892, 41.9443, 4-17 m [details]
North Balabac Strait, RV Albatross, Sta. D5355, geolocation not stated, estimated at 8.159, 117.077, 80 m depth. ... [details]
North West coast of Misima Island, 1.6 km NW of Pt. Ebola, Milne Bay Province, Louisiade Archipelago, Solomon Sea, ... [details]
Original specimen and neotype are from Naples area, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. [details]
Gulf of Suez, Red Sea, centred at 28.75 N, 33.0 E. Lamarck (1818: 317) states "Habite la mer Rouge, et se trouve à ... [details]
West side Bonito Island (Culebra Island in Google maps), Verde Island Channel, Mabini, Batangas Province, ... [details]
The holotype is the only specimen known [details]
known only from 2 specimens collected together. [details]
Earlier it was believed there was no type material remaining (Fide Pleijel, 1998: 159), however Solis-Weiss et al ... [details]