Oxydromus humesi (Pettibone, 1961)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Parasyllidea humesi Pettibone, 1961 (protonym)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1961 or before (Pettibone, 1961; Martin et al., 2012:145)
Relocated in: February 2009 (Martin et al., 2012:147)
Distribution
Republic of Congo & Rio San Pedro salt marsh, Cádiz Bay, Iberian Peninsula, Spain
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pettibone, Marian H. (1961). New species of polychaete worms from the Atlantic Ocean, with a revision of the Dorvilleidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 74: 167-186.
Other references:
Jimenez, Miguel Angel Meca. (2015). Study of the population of the symbiotic polychaete Oxydromus humesi hosted by the bivalve Scrobicularia plana in Cádiz Bay. Bachelor's thesis, Universitat de Girona.
Martin, D., Cuesta, José A., Drake, Pilar, Gil, João and Pleijel, Fredrik. (2012). The symbiotic hesionid Parasyllidea humesi Pettibone, 1961 (Annelida: Polychaeta) hosted by Scrobicularia plana (da Costa, 1778) (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Semelidade) in European waters. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 12: 145-153. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-012-0086-2
Martin, Daniel, Meca, Miguel A., Gil, João, Drake, Pilar and Nygren, Arne. (2017). Another brick in the wall: population dynamics of a symbiotic species of Oxydromus (Annelida, Hesionidae), described as new based on morphometry. Contributions to Zoology 86(3): 181-211.
Martin, D., Nygren, A., Hjelmstedt, P., Drake, P. and Gil, J. (2015). On the enigmatic symbiotic polychaete ‘Parasyllidea’ humesi Pettibone, 1961 (Hesionidae): taxonomy, phylogeny and behaviour. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174(3): 429-446. https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12249
Read, G. and Fauchald, K. (eds.). (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Oxydromus humesi (Pettibone, 1961). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=836321 on 2021-10-29
Read, G. and Fauchald, K. (eds.). (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Oxydromus humesi (Pettibone, 1961). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=836321 on 2025-05-17
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