Prometor Fisher 1948 ...

• Main Author: Biseswar, Ramlall
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echiura; Polychaeta; Echiuroidea; Bonelliidae; Prometor; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4893237; https://zenodo.org/record/4893237

Prometor sp. (Fig. 4A) MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Porcupine Abyssal Plain, BEN- GAL 2, Discovery 226, stn 13078#11, 48°53.19’N, 16°35.98’W, 4844 m, 1.IV.1997, 1 ♀. DESCRIPTION Colour of proboscis is cream, trunk is pink in preserved specimen. Proboscis is truncate, 0.5 mm long, slightly flattened distally with straight anterior margin (Fig. 4A). Lateral margins of proboscis fuse at base forming cup leading to mouth; cup with small lobes around margin (Fig. 4A). Trunk is cylindrical, 13 mm in length, covered with conspicuous, raised papillae (Fig. 4A). Body wall thick and opaque, damaged at posterior end of trunk. Ventral setae one pair, golden-yellow in colour. Each seta consists of cylindrical shaft with flattened and slightly curved terminal blade (Fig. 4A). Except for anal vesicles,rest of internal organs missing. Anal vesicles are two slender tubes opening into cloacal bulb and bearing long stalked funnels REMARKS The present specimen has been assigned to the genus Prometor on account of the ... : 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 862, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689879 ...