original description
Salazar-Vallejo, S. I.; Orensanz, J. M. (2006). Pleijelius longae n. gen., n. sp., a remarkable deep water polychaete from the Northwestern Atlantic (Polychaeta : Hesionidae). <i>Scientia Marina</i>. 70: 157-166., available online at http://www.icm.csic.es/scimar/index.php/secId/7/IdArt/168/
page(s): 158 [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Placement of Pleijelius in Hesioninae is tentative and interim. Salazar-Vallejo & Orensanz (2006:160) placed it as a sister group to that sub-family. [details]