Cinclidonemertes mooreae Crandall 2010

• Main Author: Kajihara, Hiroshi
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nemertea; Enopla; Hoplonemertea; Cinclidonemertidae; Cinclidonemertes; Cinclidonemertes mooreae; Wauwermans; Wauwermans Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4475137; https://zenodo.org/record/4475137

Cinclidonemertes mooreae Crandall, 2010 Remarks Established based on four specimens, up to 3.7 mm in length, collected from 19–25 m depth near Wauwermans Islands, Antarctica. With four eyes. The rhynchocoel is “composed of single fibres spaced apart from one another in a partially woven lattice” (Crandall 2010: 2412), a character state that cannot readily be interpreted as decisively homologous with that in Cratenemertea and/or Plectonemertidae. The cerebral organs are large, located behind the pre-cerebral septum, lying beside and beneath the brain, and thus conforming to those in Cratenemertea, but also in Proamphiporus Chernyshev & Polyakova, 2019. The vascular plug is “broad and flat, lying tightly against ventral wall of rhynchocoel” (Crandall 2010: 2421), but one of the original figures (Crandall 2010, fig. 12) depicts it as if there are two vascular plugs, reminiscent of the character state in Oerstediina. The taxonomic placement of the family Cinclidonemertidae Crandall, 2010, the genus Cinclidonemertes Crandall, 2010, and C. mooreae among Monostilifera thus requires further scrutiny. : Published as part of Kajihara, Hiroshi, 2021, Higher classification of the Monostilifera (Nemertea: Hoplonemertea), pp. 151-199 in Zootaxa 4920 (2) on page 176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4475126 : {"references": ["Crandall, F. B. (2010) A new family of the Hoplonemertea: Cinclidonemertes mooreae fam., gen. et sp. nov. (Nemertea: Hoplonemertea). Journal of Natural History, 44, 2411 - 2424. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2010.508567", "Chernyshev, A. V. & Polyakova, N. E. (2019) Nemerteans from the deep-sea expedition KuramBio II with descriptions of three new hoplonemerteans from the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. Progress in Oceanography, 178, 102148. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pocean. 2019.102148"]}