WoRMS taxon details
original description
Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1919. Pacific coast Polychaeta collected by Alexander Agassiz. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 63(6): 251-270., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30574684 page(s): 252 [details]
taxonomy source
Hong, J.-S.; Lee, C.-L.; Sato, M. (2017). A review of three species of Hesperonoe (Annelida: Polynoidae) in Asia, with descriptions of two new species and a new record of Hesperonoe hwanghaiensis from Korea. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 51(47-48): 2925-2945., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1397225 note: redescription and 2 new species [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated by Chamberlin, but looks likely derived,for reasons not obvious, but perhaps because a western USA species, from Hesperos, the evening star (the planet Venus), or relating to the Hesperides, nymphs of evening, nymphs of the West, who tend a blissful garden. And the second part of Hesperonoe derived from Antinoe, to which Chamberlin related his new genus. Brown (Composition of Scientific words) includes Hesperonoe in his examples of names derived from hesperus (Greek hesperos). [details]
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