Flabelligera buski

• Main Author: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Terebellida; Flabelligeridae; Flabelligera; Flabelligera buski; Annenkova; Canada; McIntosh; Arktis*; Mesoplodon bidens
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5249498; https://zenodo.org/record/5249498

Flabelligera buski (McIntosh, 1869) Siphonostoma buskii McIntosh 1869:420, Pl. 15, Fig. 13a, Pl. 16, Fig. 4. Flabelligera buskii : McIntosh 1908:533 (n. comb.); 1915:114-115, Pl. 96, Fig. 11, Pl. 102, Figs. 3-3b, Pl. 104, Figs. 8-8b. Material examined. None available. Diagnosis . Tunic transparent. Body brick-red. Neurohooks often in pairs, handle articles long; crests very long, width:length ratio 1:9. Remarks. Flabelligera buski (McIntosh, 1869), a rather poorly described species, resembles F. bophortica Annenkova-Chlopina, 1924 because both have neurohooks with long crests. They differ because in F. buski neuropodia have two neurohooks per ramus and their crests are very long (width:length ratio 1:9), whereas in F. bophortica most neuropodia have single neurohooks and the crests are shorter (width:length ratio 1:6(7)). On the other hand, according to Newbigin (1900:194), juveniles of F. diplochaitus have two hooks per rami, and since their hooks have typically long crests, F. buski might be more closely allied to this species (Haase 1915:174). This confusion might be resolved with more specimens of F.buski , especially adult ones, which should have fully developed neurochaetal numbers. The species has been regarded as juvenile F. affinis even McIntosh repeatedly indicated this resemblance. However, because there are two hooks per rami and that the crests are unusually long, this might be a different species. However, because there is no material available, the final decision about its specific status must be postponed. Until then, the species might be regarded as species inquerenda . Distribution : Off Loch Maddy, Northwestern Scotland, subtidal. : Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., 2012, Revision of Flabelligera Sars, 1829 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae) 3203, pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 3203 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3203.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5248129 : {"references": ["McIntosh, W. C. (1869) On the structure of the British nemerteans, and some new British annelids. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 25, 305 - 433.", "McIntosh, W. C. (1908) Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, 30: 1. On the stranding of an adult female Mesoplodon bidens, Sowerby, at St. Andrews; 2. On an abnormal plaice with a precaudal fin-frill on the left side; 3. On Orthogoriscus mola, Bl.; 4. On the British Sphaerodoridae, Chloraemidae, and Chaetopteridae; 5. On the same families dredged in the ' Porcupine' expeditions of 1869 and 1870; 6. On the foregoing families dredged in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, by Dr. Whiteaves; 7. On the same families dredged in Norwegian waters and in Finmark by Canon Norman. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 8, 2, 524 - 545.", "Annenkova-Chlopina, N. (1924) Neues uber die Verbreitung einger Arten der Polychaeten. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Russie, 1924, 125 - 128.", "Newbigin, M. I. (1900) On British species of Siphonostoma. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7, 5, 190 - 195.", "Haase, P. (1915) Boreale und arktisch Chloraemiden. Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen der Kommission zur Wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der Deutschen Meere, Neue Folge, Kiel, 17, 169 - 228."]}