Heterochaeta compacta Sars, 1900 (p.83, Descr.F, figs.F);
? Heterorhabdus brevicornis : Farran, 1926 (p.284, Rem.F);
Heterorhabdus compactus Sars, 1925 (p.226, figs.F,M); Farran, ? 1926 (p.284); 1929 (p.209, 267, Rem.); Rose, 1933 a (p.202, figs.F,M); Jespersen, 1934 (p.107); Lysholm & al., 1945 (p.35); Farran, 1948 e (n°16, p.3, figs.F,M); Brodsky, 1950 (1967) (p.348, figs.F,M); Grice, 1963 a (p.496); M.W. Johnson, 1963 (p.89, Table 1, 2); Tanaka, 1964 a (p.21, figs.F,M); Vidal, 1971 a (p.11, 22, 115, figs.F, M); Heptner, 1971 (p.154, figs.F,M); Harding, 1974 (p.141, tab.2, gut contents); Kos, 1976 (Vol. II, figs.F,M, Rem.); Deevey & Brooks, 1977 (p.256, tab.2, Station "S"); Björnberg & al., 1981 (p.650, figs.F,M); Roe, 1984 (p.358); Wiebe & al., 1988 (tab.7); Hattori, 1991 (tab.1, Appendix); Razouls, 1994 (p.161, figs.F,M); Shih & Young, 1995 (p.70); Nishida & Ohtsuka, 1996 (p.620); Kosobokova & al., 1998 (tab.2); Bradford-Grieve & al., 1999 (p.883, 944, figs.F,M); Kosobokova & Hirche, 2000 (p.2029, tab.2); Yamaguchi & al., 2002 (p.1007, tab.1); Auel & Hagen, 2002 (p.1013, tab.2); Hopcroft & al., 2005 (p.198, table 2); Vives & Shmeleva, 2007 (p.301, figs.F,M, Rem.); Khelifi-Touhami & al., 2007 (p.327, Table 1); Blachowiak-Samolyk & al., 2007 (p.2716, Table 2); Blachowiak-Samolyk & al., 2008 (p.2210, Table 3, biomass); Wishner & al., 2008 (p.163, Table 2, fig.8, oxycline); Gaard & al., 2008 (p.59, Table 1, N Mid-Atlantic Ridge); Galbraith, 2009 (pers. comm.); Homma & Yamaguchi, 2010 (p.965, Table 2)
Heterorhabdus (Paraheterorhabdus) compactus : Chihara & Murano, 1997 (p.819, Pl.122: F,M);
Ref. compl.: Damas & Koefoed, 1907 (p.400, tab.II); Hardy & Gunther, 1935 (1936) (p.181, Rem.); VWilson, 1942 a (p.190); Sewell, 1948 (p.349, 503, 512, 514, 567, 569); Fagetti, 1962 (p.30); De Decker & Mombeck, 1964 (p.12); Grice & Hulsemann, 1965 (p.224); Harding, 1966 (p.17, 66, 71); Grice & Hulsemann, 1967 (p.18); Dunbar & Harding, 1968 (p.319); Vinogradov, 1968 (1970) (p.201); Park, 1970 (p.477); Deevey, 1971 (p.224); Roe, 1972 (p.277, tabl.1, tabl.2); Björnberg, 1973 (p.345, 387); Vives & al., 1975 (p.50, tab.II, XII); Carter, 1977 (1978) (p.36); Vives, 1982 (p.293); Kosobokova, 1989 (p.26); Heinrich, 1990 (p.18); Mumm, 1993 (tab.1, fig.2); Richter, 1994 (tab.4.1a); Hanssen, 1997 (tab.3.1); Lapernat, 2000 (tabl.3, 4); Razouls & al., 2000 (p.343, Appendix); Kosobokova & Hirche, 2000 (p.2029, tab.2); Hop & al., 2006 (p.182, Table 4); Bucklin & al., 2010 (p.40, Table 1, Biol mol.); Homma & al., 2011 (p.29, Table 2, 3, abundance)