A new genus of frenulates (Annelida: Siboglinidae) from shallow waters of the Yenisey River estuary, Kara Sea

• Published in: Invertebrate Systematics
• Main Authors: N. P. Karaseva, N. N. Rimskaya-Korsakova, I. A. Ekimova, M. M. Gantsevich, V. N. Kokarev, S. V. Kremnyov, M. I. Simakov, A. A. Udalov, A. A. Vedenin, V. V. Malakhov
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: CSIRO Publishing 2021
• Subjects: Frenulates; the Kara Sea; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Kara Sea; Yenisey; permafrost; yenisey river
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1071/IS20075

Only seven frenulate species are currently known along the Eurasian coast of the Arctic Ocean. We describe a new genus and a new species of frenulates Crispabrachia yenisey, gen. nov. et sp. nov. The morphological analysis involved standard anatomical techniques, semithin sections and scanning elect...