Deep-Sea taxon details
Poeobius meseres Heath, 1930
330855 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:330855)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Heath, Harold. (1930). A connecting link between the Annelida and the Echiuroidea (Gephyrea armata). <em>Journal of Morphology.</em> 49(1): 223-249., available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.1050490106 [details]
Note Pacific Ocean, Monterey Bay, California
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Monterey Bay, California [details]
Etymology Heath gives an etymology for genus & species from Greek, and 'meseres' he says means intermediate.
Etymology Heath gives an etymology for genus & species from Greek, and 'meseres' he says means intermediate. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Poeobius meseres Heath, 1930. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=330855 on 2025-04-06
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Poeobius meseres Heath, 1930. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=330855 on 2025-04-06
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Heath, Harold. (1930). A connecting link between the Annelida and the Echiuroidea (Gephyrea armata). <em>Journal of Morphology.</em> 49(1): 223-249., available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.1050490106 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1955). Endemism in the North Pacific Ocean, with emphasis on the distribution of marine annelids, and descriptions of new or little known species. pp. 39-60. In: Allan, Hancock Foundation (Ed.). <em>Essays in the Natural Sciences in Honor of Captain Allan Hancock on the occasion of his birthday July 26, 1955.</em> Los Angeles, University of Southern California Press., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5227326
page(s): 52-54, plate 1 fig. 6 [details] Available for editors
additional source Burnette, Adriene B.; Struck, Torsten H.; Halanych, Kenneth M. (2005). Holopelagic <i>Poeobius meseres</i> (Poeobiidae, Annelida) is derived from benthic flabelligerid worms. <em>The Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole).</em> 208(3): 213-220., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3593153 [details] Available for editors
status source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2008). Review of <i>Poeobius meseres</i> Heath, 1930 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae). <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 49(2): 191-200., available online at https://dx.doi.org/10.21411/CBM.A.6FB6F3A2 [details] Available for editors
ecology source Seid, Charlotte A.; Lindsay, Dhugal J.; Rouse, Greg W. (2020). A new southern record of the holopelagic annelid Poeobius meseres Heath, 1930 (Flabelligeridae). <em>Biodiversity Data Journal.</em> 8 (e58655): 1-12., available online at https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/58655/list/9/ [details] Available for editors
ecology source McGowan, J. A. (1960). The relationship of the distribution of the planktonic worm, Poeobius meseres Heath, to the water masses of the North Pacific. <em>Deep Sea Research.</em> 6(2): 125-139., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0146-6313(59)90064-4
note: distribution for North Pacific Ocean & reports a few Poeobius records for the Southern Hemisphere, off Ecuador, about 3-4 degrees South of the equator [details] Available for editors
ecology source Uttal, L. & K.R. Buck. (1996). Dietary study of the midwater polychaete Poeobius meseres in Monterey Bay, California. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 125 (2): 333-343., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00346314 [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1955). Endemism in the North Pacific Ocean, with emphasis on the distribution of marine annelids, and descriptions of new or little known species. pp. 39-60. In: Allan, Hancock Foundation (Ed.). <em>Essays in the Natural Sciences in Honor of Captain Allan Hancock on the occasion of his birthday July 26, 1955.</em> Los Angeles, University of Southern California Press., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5227326
page(s): 52-54, plate 1 fig. 6 [details] Available for editors
additional source Burnette, Adriene B.; Struck, Torsten H.; Halanych, Kenneth M. (2005). Holopelagic <i>Poeobius meseres</i> (Poeobiidae, Annelida) is derived from benthic flabelligerid worms. <em>The Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole).</em> 208(3): 213-220., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3593153 [details] Available for editors
status source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2008). Review of <i>Poeobius meseres</i> Heath, 1930 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae). <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 49(2): 191-200., available online at https://dx.doi.org/10.21411/CBM.A.6FB6F3A2 [details] Available for editors
ecology source Seid, Charlotte A.; Lindsay, Dhugal J.; Rouse, Greg W. (2020). A new southern record of the holopelagic annelid Poeobius meseres Heath, 1930 (Flabelligeridae). <em>Biodiversity Data Journal.</em> 8 (e58655): 1-12., available online at https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/58655/list/9/ [details] Available for editors
ecology source McGowan, J. A. (1960). The relationship of the distribution of the planktonic worm, Poeobius meseres Heath, to the water masses of the North Pacific. <em>Deep Sea Research.</em> 6(2): 125-139., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0146-6313(59)90064-4
note: distribution for North Pacific Ocean & reports a few Poeobius records for the Southern Hemisphere, off Ecuador, about 3-4 degrees South of the equator [details] Available for editors
ecology source Uttal, L. & K.R. Buck. (1996). Dietary study of the midwater polychaete Poeobius meseres in Monterey Bay, California. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 125 (2): 333-343., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00346314 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Etymology Heath gives an etymology for genus & species from Greek, and 'meseres' he says means intermediate. [details]Unreviewed
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Monterey Bay, California [details]
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Poeobius meseres)
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 31 proteins)
To MBARI Poeobius meseres data plots
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (57 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 096603)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Poeobius meseres)
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 31 proteins)
To MBARI Poeobius meseres data plots
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (57 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 096603)
To ITIS
