Sylvain Le Bris, Frankreich
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Hesione sicula has a brownish-reddish, stocky body with a series of light-colored stripes; the panther worm’s head is equipped with eight pairs of tentacle-like cirri.
Its dorsal cirri are very long and clearly visible.
The panther worm is a nocturnal hunter that is usually well hidden during the day.
Hesione sicula lives in the Mediterranean Sea; In 1959, several specimens were collected in the Gulf of Guinea by the legendary research vessel RV Calypso under Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau; however, this record is considered doubtful in the “Revision of Hesione Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida, Errantia, Hesionidae),” and the same applies to reports from Angola.
Synonym: Hesione steenstrupii Quatrefages, 1866 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Its dorsal cirri are very long and clearly visible.
The panther worm is a nocturnal hunter that is usually well hidden during the day.
Hesione sicula lives in the Mediterranean Sea; In 1959, several specimens were collected in the Gulf of Guinea by the legendary research vessel RV Calypso under Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau; however, this record is considered doubtful in the “Revision of Hesione Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida, Errantia, Hesionidae),” and the same applies to reports from Angola.
Synonym: Hesione steenstrupii Quatrefages, 1866 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
