Two new deep-sea species of Laonice (Annelida: Spionidae) from the Mediterranean Sea

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Authors: Sikorski, Andrey V., Pavlova, Lyudmila V., Sardá, Rafael, Langeneck, Joachim, Gil, João, Ravara, Ascensão
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Magnolia Press 2021
• Subjects: Appelloefia; Norgensia; Deep-sea; Mediterranean; Laonice alberti sp. nov; Laonice barcinensis sp. nov; Laonice rasmusseni; Alberti; Arctic; Barents Sea; Pavlova
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/227378

Este artículo contiene 12 páginas, 4 figuras. Two new deep-sea species of the genus Laonice belonging to the subgenera Sarsiana and Appelloefia respectively, are described from the Mediterranean Sea. Complete specimens of the subgenus Appelloefia were studied for the first time, and the new information collected raised questions on the boundaries between the subgenera Appelloefia and Norgensia. The presence of characters in L. barcinensis sp. nov. previously considered to be exclusive to each these two subgenera suggests that they should be regarded as synonymous. The name Appelloefia being given precedence here, according to the Principle of the First Reviser. A correction is made regarding the depth range of Laonice rasmusseni Sikorski & Pavlova, 2018. Financial support was provided by the Norwegian Research Council (Project 233635/H30, “Environmental management of petroleum activities in the Barents Sea: Norwegian-Russian collaboration” and NFR 280724 “Environmental monitoring of Arctic coastal ecosystems: Sensitivity to petroleum pollution (Arctic EcoSens)”), DOS MARES Research Project (Ref. CTM2010-21810-C03-03), funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI, Spain) and the European Regional Development Funds (FEDER), and CESAM by FCT/MEC through national funds, and co-funding by the FEDER, within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and Compete 2020 (UIDB/50017/2020+UIDP/50017/2020). AR was supported by national funds (OE), through FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the scope of the framework contract foreseen in the numbers 4, 5 and 6 of the article 23, of the Decree-Law 57/2016, of August 29, changed by Law 57/2017, of July 19. Peer reviewed