Kirkegaardia kladara Blake, 2016, new species ...

• Main Author: Blake, James A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Terebellida; Ctenodrilidae; Kirkegaardia; Kirkegaardia kladara; Cape Lookout; Lookout; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5612214; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5612214

Kirkegaardia kladara new species Figures 10 D, 11 Tharyx sp. 4: Blake et al. 1987: C-2; Hilbig 1994: 941. Material examined. Western North Atlantic, off Cape Lookout, North Carolina, U.S. South Atlantic ACSAR Program Cruise 1, R/ V Columbus Iselin Sta. 1, Rep. 2, 11 November 1983, 34°16.36′N, 75°45.50′W, 640 m, coll. J.A. Blake, Chief Scientist, holotype (USNM 1407164); Cruise 2, R/V Cape Hatteras, Sta. 2, Rep. 3, 27 March 1984, 34°14.56′N, 75°43.35′W, 1000 m, coll. J.A. Blake, Chief Scientist, 1 paratype (USNM 1407165). Description. An elongate, thin, fragile species; holotype complete, 24 mm long, 0.3 mm wide with about 95 setigers; paratype incomplete, 4.36 mm long, 0.23 mm wide across thorax, for 19 setigers. Body of holotype covered with closely adhering silt particles. Color in alcohol, light tan with no pigment. Pre-setigerous region 1.8x as long as wide. Prostomium narrow, rounded on anterior margin, continuing as a narrow peristomial ridge or dorsal crest to anterior border of setiger 1 (Fig. 11 A); ... : Published as part of Blake, James A., 2016, Kirkegaardia (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae), new name for Monticellina Laubier, preoccupied in the Rhabdocoela, together with new records and descriptions of eight previously known and sixteen new species from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans, pp. 1-93 in Zootaxa 4166 (1) on pages 26-28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4166.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/272348 ...