Jakobia densopapillata Biseswar 2006, n. sp. ...

• Main Author: Biseswar, Ramlall
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echiura; Polychaeta; Echiuroidea; Bonelliidae; Jakobia; Jakobia densopapillata; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4893229; https://zenodo.org/record/4893229

Jakobia densopapillata n. sp. (Fig. 1 E-H) TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: Porcupine Abyssal Plain, BENGAL 3, Discovery 229, stn 13200#70, 48°51.62’N, 16°31.80’W, 4845 m, 19.III.1998, 1 ♀. Paratypes: BENGAL 5, Discovery 231, stn 13368#52, 48°48.3’N, 16°25.97’W, 4839 m, 19.III.1998, 1 ♀. BENGAL 6, Discovery 237, stn 13627#11, 48°47.82’N, 16°40.37’W, 4847 m, 1.X.1998, 1 ♀. ETYMOLOGY. — The species name is based on the papillae which are very prominent and densely distributed over entire surface of trunk. DESCRIPTION Colour of proboscis is cream, trunk is beige in preserved state. Proboscis of holotype is 30 mm long; distal half is flattened and tapers at tip; in proximal half, lateral margins curl inwards giving it a tubular appearance (Fig. 1E). Mouth is surrounded laterally and ventrally by well developed lips. Probosces missing in both paratypes. Trunk is cylindrical. In holotype trunk is 97 mm in length and 19 mm across broadest part. In larger paratype trunk is 78 mm long and ... : 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 pages 856-857, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689879 ...