Deep-Sea name details
original description
Summers, Mindi; Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W. (2015). Whale falls, multiple colonisations of the deep, and the phylogeny of Hesionidae (Annelida). <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 29(2): 105-123., available online at https://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IS14055 page(s): 118 [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea)
Summers, Mindi; Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W. (2015). Whale falls, multiple colonisations of the deep, and the phylogeny of Hesionidae (Annelida). <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 29(2): 105-123., available online at https://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IS14055 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype SIO SIO-BIC A2344., geounit Monterey Bay [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Authors: "Ketea (Greek for ‘sea monsters’ from Ketos, referring to the sea monster in Hesione myth, and Ketea as the root for ‘whale’)." [details]
Taxonomy Authors: "Vrijenhoekia ketea, sp. nov. differs from previously named V. balaenophila by possessing a median antenna and lacking a proboscis ring of papillae. The Vrijenhoekia ketea species complex includes the three species V. ketea, sp. nov., V. falenothiras, sp. nov., and V. ahabi, sp. nov." [details]
Type locality Monterey Canyon, off California, on grey whale carcass,
36.6133, -122.4333 (36 36.80 N, 122 26.00 W), 2893 m depth [details]
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