Marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) of Antarctica, with descriptions of three new species of Phallodrilinae

• Published in: Zoologica Scripta
• Main Author: ERSÉUS, CHRISTER
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1994
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; antarcticus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1994.tb00386.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1463-6409.1994.tb00386.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1994.tb00386.x

Five species of Tubificidae are recorded from Antarctic waters: Torodrilus lowryi Cook, 1970, Torodrilus sp. (subfamily Rhyacodrilinae), Marionidrilus antarcticus sp. n., M. weddellensis sp. n., and Thalassodrilus bicki sp. n. (subfamily Phallodrilinae); only T. lowryi was known from Antarctica before. The status of the two Southern Hemisphere genera Torodrilus Cook, 1970, and Marionidrilus Erséus, 1992, are discussed; although the taxonomic position of the two new species of Marionidrilus is somewhat uncertain. Thalassodrilus bicki , however, appears closely related to Northern Hemisphere taxa.