WoRMS taxon details
original description
Meißner, Karin; Schwentner, Martin; Götting, Miriam; Knebelsberger, Thomas; Fiege, Dieter. (2023). Polychaetes distributed across oceans—examples of widely recorded species from abyssal depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> Efirst: 1-39., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad069 page(s): 25 of 39, figures 13-15; note: Kuril-Kamchatka trench, NW Pacific Ocean, 46.9661, 154.5415, 5766 m, [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype ZMH ZMH-P 30460, geounit Kuril-Kamchatka Trench [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Authors: Spiophanes pacificus "has a wide distribution in the Pacific Ocean. Records came from the central (Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone CCZ) and SE Pacific (Peru Basin), and from the NW Pacific (Kuril–Kamchatka trench). Water depths were between 4900 and 5800 m in the NW Pacific, 4200–5100 m in the CCZ, and 4100– 4200 m in the Peru Basin." [details]
Etymology Authors: Spiophanes pacificus is named for "the known distribution of the species in soft bottom habitats of the deep Pacific Ocean." [details]
Type locality Kuril-Kamchatka trench, NW Pacific Ocean, 46.9661, 154.5415, 5766 m [details]
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