World Polychaeta Database - Hesione helenensis Salazar-Vallejo, 2018

Polychaeta taxon details

Hesione helenensis Salazar-Vallejo, 2018

AphiaID

1306788 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1306788)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Hesione Lamarck, 1818

Original name

Hesione helenensis Salazar-Vallejo, 2018

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

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
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Type data

Holotype USNM 33148, geounit South East Atlantic

Holotype USNM 33148, geounit South East Atlantic [details]

, Note James Bay, Saint Helena Island, South East...

From editor or global species database

Type locality James Bay, Saint Helena Island, South East Atlantic, no geolocation given but estimated as -15.923, -5.720. Jamestown is the main settlement on the island [details]

Type material known only from 2 specimens collected together. [details]

Descriptive notes

Etymology named H. helenensis after Saint Helena Island in the South Atlantic, which is the type locality. The island is named after...

Etymology named H. helenensis after Saint Helena Island in the South Atlantic, which is the type locality. The island is named after Saint Helena of Constantinople. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hesione helenensis Salazar-Vallejo, 2018. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1306788 on 2026-09-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2018-10-27 04:52:25Z

created

Read, Geoffrey

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original description 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): 261 [details] Available for editors

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Holotype USNM 33148, geounit South East Atlantic [details]

From editor or global species database

Etymology named H. helenensis after Saint Helena Island in the South Atlantic, which is the type locality. The island is named after Saint Helena of Constantinople. [details]

Type locality James Bay, Saint Helena Island, South East Atlantic, no geolocation given but estimated as -15.923, -5.720. Jamestown is the main settlement on the island [details]

Type material known only from 2 specimens collected together. [details]

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