World Polychaeta Database - Hesione horsti Salazar-Vallejo, 2018

Polychaeta taxon details

Hesione horsti Salazar-Vallejo, 2018

AphiaID

1306789 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1306789)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Hesione Lamarck, 1818

Original name

Hesione horsti 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 RMNH 19913, geounit East Timor

Holotype RMNH 19913, geounit East Timor [details]

, Note Timor Leste (East Timor), South East coast, ...

From editor or global species database

Type locality Timor Leste (East Timor), South East coast, RV Siboga Exped. Stat. 285 -8.6517, 127.0733 (08°39.1’S, 127°04.4’E), 34 m depth [details]

Descriptive notes

Etymology Named H. horsti after Dr R. Horst, from the Leiden Museum, Netherlands who originally examined Siboga polychaetes

Etymology Named H. horsti after Dr R. Horst, from the Leiden Museum, Netherlands who originally examined Siboga polychaetes [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hesione horsti Salazar-Vallejo, 2018. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1306789 on 2026-09-29

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): 263 [details] Available for editors

[request]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Holotype RMNH 19913, geounit East Timor [details]

From editor or global species database

Etymology Named H. horsti after Dr R. Horst, from the Leiden Museum, Netherlands who originally examined Siboga polychaetes [details]

Type locality Timor Leste (East Timor), South East coast, RV Siboga Exped. Stat. 285 -8.6517, 127.0733 (08°39.1’S, 127°04.4’E), 34 m depth [details]

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