WoRMS source details
Systematics, Taxonomy
Sirsoe grasslei (Blake, 1985) (taxonomy source)
Sirsoe pleijeli Kroesche & Rouse, 2025 (original description)
Sirsoe sapote Kroesche & Rouse, 2025 (original description)
Sirsoe shastae Kroesche & Rouse, 2025 (original description)
Vrijenhoekia Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008 (taxonomy source)
Vrijenhoekia ahabi Summers, Pleijel & Rouse, 2015 (status source)
Vrijenhoekia alphacrucis (Shimabukuro, Carrerette, Alfaro-Lucas, Rizzo, Halanych & Sumida, 2021) (new combination reference)
Vrijenhoekia alphadelphini (Shimabukuro, Carrerette, Alfaro-Lucas, Rizzo, Halanych & Sumida, 2021) (new combination reference)
Vrijenhoekia balaenophila Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008 (status source)
Vrijenhoekia besnard (Shimabukuro, Carrerette, Alfaro-Lucas, Rizzo, Halanych & Sumida, 2021) (new combination reference)
Vrijenhoekia falenothiras Summers, Pleijel & Rouse, 2015 (status source)
Vrijenhoekia ketea Summers, Pleijel & Rouse, 2015 (status source)
Vrijenhoekia mindiae Kroesche & Rouse, 2025 (original description)
Vrijenhoekia nadir (Shimabukuro, Carrerette, Alfaro-Lucas, Rizzo, Halanych & Sumida, 2021) (new combination reference)
Vrijenhoekia pirapuan (Shimabukuro, Carrerette, Alfaro-Lucas, Rizzo, Halanych & Sumida, 2021) (new combination reference)
Vrijenhoekia ungava (Shimabukuro, Carrerette, Alfaro-Lucas, Rizzo, Halanych & Sumida, 2021) (new combination reference)
Vrijenhoekia yokosuka (Shimabukuro, Carrerette, Alfaro-Lucas, Rizzo, Halanych & Sumida, 2021) (new combination reference)
Vrijenhoekia ypupiara (Shimabukuro, Carrerette, Alfaro-Lucas, Rizzo, Halanych & Sumida, 2021) (new combination reference)
Holotype ICML-UNAM ICML-EMU 14000, geounit Gulf of California, identified as Sirsoe sapote Kroesche & Rouse, 2025
Holotype ICML-UNAM ICML-EMU 14001,, geounit Gulf of California, identified as Sirsoe shastae Kroesche & Rouse, 2025
Holotype SIO-BIC A9606, geounit Costa Rica, identified as Vrijenhoekia mindiae Kroesche & Rouse, 2025
Holotype USNM 81808-9, geounit Gulf of California, identified as Orseis grasslei Blake, 1985
Psamathinae with or without dorsally inserted median antenna, eyes absent, frontal tubercle and glandular lip pads ... [details]
Original diagnosis by Pleijel et al (2008): As for species: Apomorphies: Three pairs of large glandular lip pads ... [details]
Vrijenhoekia mindiae has been found at methane seeps at ~990–1400 m off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and at ... [details]
Vrijenhoekia was treated here as a synonym of Sirsoe based on Shimbukuro et al 2019. However, Georgieva et al ... [details]
Georgieva et al (2023) added a further Vrijenhoekia species although Shimbukuro et al (2021, 2019) had earlier ... [details]
Orseis grasslei is named after Frederick Grassle, Woods Hole Oceanograph institute [details]
Authors: Sirsoe pleijeli is named for "Fredrik Pleijel who erected the genus Sirsoe and devoted much time to the ... [details]
Sirsoe sapote is named after the sapote (Pouteria sapota) a type of fruit native to Mexico. Noun in apposition. ... [details]
Sirsoe shastae is named after Rachel Kroesche's pet female cat. [details]
Vrijenhoekia mindiae is named after of Mindi Summers who first informally led the description of this species as ... [details]
The authors' heading for Sirsoe sapote does not indicate it is a new species. This is contrary to Code article ... [details]
After the generic transfers suggested by Kroesche & Rouse (2025) the species content of Vrijenhoekia is as ... [details]
Strictly the type species of Vrijenhoekia, V. balaenophila places within Sirsoe according to phylogeny figures ... [details]
Orseis grasslei (now Sirsoe grasslei) is the type species of Sirsoe but important genetic characterisation was ... [details]
Kroesche and Rouse (2025) state that: "Sirsoe shastae n. sp. was found to be a sister group to S. pleijeli n. sp., ... [details]
Bejeweled Mound, south of the JaichMaa ‘ja’ag Vent Field, Pescadero Basin, Gulf of California, 23.936 N, ... [details]
Matterhorn and Z Vent, Auka Vent Field, Pescadero Basin, Gulf of California, 23.954 N, 108.863, 3655 m depth [details]
Weey ’kual (Red Hill), JaichMaa ‘ja’ag Vent Field, Pescadero Basin, Gulf of California, 23.940 N, 108.856 W, ... [details]
Bone, wood, and chips experimental deployment, Costa Rica, off Pacific coast, 8.93 N, 84.312 W, 992 m depth, ... [details]
