Eubonellia noratlanticum DattaGupta 1981 ...

• Main Author: Biseswar, Ramlall
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echiura; Polychaeta; Echiuroidea; Bonelliidae; Eubonellia; Eubonellia noratlanticum; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4893184; https://zenodo.org/record/4893184

Eubonellia noratlanticum DattaGupta, 1981 (Fig. 2 A-D) MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Porcupine Abyssal Plain, BEN- GAL 2, Discovery 226, stn 13078#11, 48°53.19’N, 16°35.98’W, 4844 m, 12.III.1997, 2 ♀♀. DESCRIPTION Colour of proboscis and trunk of preserved specimens is light pink. Distal tip of proboscis of larger specimen is damaged. In smaller specimen only basal stump of proboscis is still attached to trunk. Proximally, lateral margins of proboscis curl inwards giving it a tubular appearance (Fig. 2A). Trunk of larger specimen measures 66 mm in length and 12 mm across broadest part. Corresponding measurements of smaller specimen are 40 and 10 mm. Integument is thick and opaque at extremities of trunk where longitudinal muscles are arranged in bands, but thin and transparent in middle region of trunk. To unaided eye integument appears smooth but under magnification elongated papillae are visible in contracted regions of trunk, aligned roughly in transverse rows. Proboscis and trunk covered ... : Published as part of Biseswar, Ramlall, 2006, Additions to the deep-sea echiuran (Echiura) fauna of the North-East Atlantic, pp. 853-864 in Zoosystema 28 (4) on page 858, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689879 ...