Pseudopolydora nivea Radashevsky, Malyar & Pankova 2024, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Radashevsky, Vasily I., Malyar, Vasily V., Pankova, Victoria V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Spionida; Spionidae; Pseudopolydora; Pseudopolydora nivea; Bird Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13237103; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13237103

Pseudopolydora nivea Radashevsky, Malyar & Pankova sp. nov. http://zoobank.org:act: 0BC8D111-94E4-449E-8F92-3F33AB26971D Figure 14 Pseudopolydora cf. rosebelae: Radashevsky 2015: 682−684, figs 31, 32. Not Radashevsky & Migotto 2009. Material examined. Australia, Queensland, Great Barrier Reef, Lizard Island, lagoon entrance, reef near Bird Island, 14.695222°S, 145.4655°E, 10 m, coral sand, coll. Radashevsky, V.I., 14 August 2013, AM W.45381 (holotype). Etymology. The species name nivea, feminine for the Latin niveus (snow-white, snowy, of snow), refers to the snow-white pigment on the dorsal side of the head and anterior chaetigers of the holotype. Diagnosis. Adults with numerous white stellar chromatophores on prostomium, peristomium, and dorsal side of eight anterior chaetigers. Prostomium anteriorly bilobed, extending posteriorly to end of chaetiger 1 as a low caruncle. Occipital antenna present. Thin epithelial hood arising from dorsal anterior edge of chaetiger 3 and forming voluminous pouch ... : Published as part of Radashevsky, Vasily I., Malyar, Vasily V. & Pankova, Victoria V., 2024, Cryptic invasions of Pseudopolydora (Annelida: Spionidae), with description of a new species from Queensland, Australia, pp. 213-240 in Zootaxa 5486 (2) on pages 231-232, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13209875 ...