Redescription of Capitella capitata (Fabricius) from West Greenland and designation of a neotype (Polychaeta, Capitellidae)

• Main Author: James A. Blake
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Uummannaq Fjord; Disko Bay; Subarctic; Uummannaq
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.192.7968; http://www.mapress.com/zoosymposia/content/2009/v2/f/v002p055-080.pdf

Capitella capitata (Fabricius, 1780), the type species of the genus, was originally described from the SW coast of Greenland; however, current definitions of the species are largely based on Eisig (1887), who described specimens from Naples on the Mediterranean coast. Eisig’s excellent account of th...