WoRMS taxon details

Vrijenhoekia falenothiras Summers, Pleijel & Rouse, 2015

851419  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:851419)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Phyllodocida (Order)
  7. Nereidiformia (Suborder)
  8. Hesionidae (Family)
  9. Psamathinae (Subfamily)
  10. Vrijenhoekia (Genus)
  11. Vrijenhoekia falenothiras (Species)
accepted
Species
Sirsoe falenothiras (Summers, Pleijel & Rouse, 2015) · unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded subsequent combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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): 120 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Holotype  SIO SIO-BIC A2345, geounit Monterey Bay  
Holotype SIO SIO-BIC A2345, geounit Monterey Bay [details]
, Note Monterey Canyon, off California, on grey whale...  
From editor or global species database
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]
Description as for V. ketea, but differs molecularly  
Description as for V. ketea, but differs molecularly [details]

Etymology Authors: "Falenothiras (Greek for ‘whale hunter’)"  
Etymology Authors: "Falenothiras (Greek for ‘whale hunter’)" [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Vrijenhoekia falenothiras Summers, Pleijel & Rouse, 2015. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851419 on 2025-04-08
Date
action
by
2015-07-15 21:26:10Z
created
Read, Geoffrey
2023-09-17 10:33:25Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey
2025-02-19 00:54:59Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey

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Nomenclature

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): 120 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Taxonomy

status source Kroesche, Rachel; Rouse, Greg W. (2025). Four New Species of Hesionidae (Annelida, Polychaeta, Phyllodocida) from Eastern Pacific Chemosynthetic Habitats and Reinstatement of Vrijenhoekia. <em>Diversity.</em> 17(2: 121): 1-30., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/2/121
page(s): 5 of 30, figure 1; note: returned from Sirsoe upon re-validation of Vrijenhoekia [details] 

Other

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  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
Holotype SIO SIO-BIC A2345, geounit Monterey Bay [details]
From editor or global species database
Description as for V. ketea, but differs molecularly [details]

Etymology Authors: "Falenothiras (Greek for ‘whale hunter’)" [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]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Vrijenhoekia falenothiras) 
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 

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