WoRMS taxon details
Elisesione mezianei Salazar-Vallejo, 2016
889623 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:889623)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2016). Elisesione, a new name for Wesenbergia Hartman, 1955, and the description of a new species (Annelida, Hesionidae). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 632: 1-12., available online at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=9652 [details]
Holotype MNHN 1777, geounit Wallis and Futuna part of...
, Note Waterwitch Bank, 128 km NW [sic, actually NE]...
Holotype MNHN 1777, geounit Wallis and Futuna part of the South Pacific Ocean [details]
Etymology named to honor Dr. Tarik Meziane, Curator of Polychaeta in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Author states...
Etymology named to honor Dr. Tarik Meziane, Curator of Polychaeta in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Author states 'mezianei' is to be regarded as a noun in apposition. From etymology and construction it is clearly a noun in the genitive case. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Elisesione mezianei Salazar-Vallejo, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=889623 on 2025-04-08
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Nomenclature
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Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2016). Elisesione, a new name for Wesenbergia Hartman, 1955, and the description of a new species (Annelida, Hesionidae). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 632: 1-12., available online at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=9652 [details]





Holotype MNHN 1777, geounit Wallis and Futuna part of the South Pacific Ocean [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology named to honor Dr. Tarik Meziane, Curator of Polychaeta in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Author states 'mezianei' is to be regarded as a noun in apposition. From etymology and construction it is clearly a noun in the genitive case. [details]Type locality Waterwitch Bank, 128 km NW [sic, actually NE] off Wallis Island (Wallis & Futuna group), -12.5133°, -176.6833°, 27–37 m, coralline rocks [details]
Type material known from the holotype only, MNHN 1777 [details]