Spiophanes australis Meissner & Schwentner & Göưing & Fiege 2023, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Meissner, Karin, Schwentner, Martin, Göưing, Miriam, Fiege, Thomas Knebelsberger and Dieter
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Spionida; Spionidae; Spiophanes; Spiophanes australis; Argentine; Pacific; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10497566; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10497566

Spiophanes australis sp. nov. Meissner, Göfling and Fiege (Figs 13, 16, 17; Table 6) Type material: Holotype. South Atlantic Ocean, Argentine Basin, M 79-1 (DIVA 3), stn 533-1 EBS, 4602 m, 15 Jul 2009, one af fragmented into two pieces (21 chaetigers, 3.1 mm long, width 0.6 mm), original fixation formalin, now in 70% EtOH (SMF 30647). Paratypes: SW Atlantic Ocean, Argentine Basin, M 79-1 (DIVA 3), stn 533-1 EBS, 4602 m, 15 Jul 2009, four af original fixation formalin, now in 70% EtOH (SMF 30634 incl. one af SEM 1334); stn 534-1 EBS, 4608 m, 16 Jul 2009, six af, original fixation formalin, now in 70% EtOH (SMF 30632 incl. one af SEM 1335); stn 534-1 EBS, 4608 m depth, 16 Jul 2009, one af, fixed in 96% EtOH, tissue sample (SMF 32277). Measurements for largest paratype (SMF 30632) af of about 19 chaetigers, length ~ 3 mm, width ~ 0.6 mm (chaetae omiưed); other paratypes all af max. 21 chaetigers, between 0.9–4.7 mm long, 0.3–0.6 mm wide. Description: Holotype anterior fragment with 21 chaetigers, 0.6 mm wide ... : Published as part of Meissner, Karin, Schwentner, Martin, Göưing, Miriam & Fiege, Thomas Knebelsberger and Dieter, 2023, Polychaetes distributed across oceans-examples of widely recorded species from abyssal depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, pp. 906-944 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199 on pages 933-936, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad069, http://zenodo.org/record/10470369 ...