Ammotrypanella mcintoshi Schüller, 2008, sp. nov. ...

• Main Author: Schüller, Myriam
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Opheliidae; Ammotrypanella; Ammotrypanella mcintoshi; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5615904; https://zenodo.org/record/5615904

Ammotrypanella mcintoshi sp. nov. (Fig. 4 A–B) Holotype. ANDEEP III, st. 16 - 10, Southern Atlantic, off South Africa, 26 January 2005, 41°07.55’ S, 9 ° 55.94 ’E, 4720 m, EBS, ZMH P- 24753. Paratypes. ANDEEP III, st. 21 - 7, Southern Atlantic, 29 January 2005, 47° 39.87 'S, 04° 15.79 'E, 4574 m, EBS, 1 specimens, ANDEEP III, st. 59 - 5, Atlantic Sector Southern Ocean, 14 February 2005, 67° 30.75 'S, 00°00.23'W, 4651 m, EBS, 1 specimens, ZMH P- 24754. Additional material. 16 - 10 (2), 74 - 6 (2), 110 - 8 (3), 121 - 11 (1). Etymology. The name is chosen in honour of W.C. McIntosh who defined the genus Ammotrypanella in 1879. Diagnosis. The diagnostic character of this species is the lack of an anal tube. Description. Holotype complete, body long and thin, 6 mm long and 0.5 mm wide for 35 chaetigers. A small species of 5–16 mm length and 0.5–1 mm width; number of chaetigers about 30–35 or more, very variable. With ventral and lateral groove along whole length of body. Posterior body region bilaterally ... : Published as part of Schüller, Myriam, 2008, New polychaete species collected during the expeditions ANDEEP I, II, and III to the deep Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean in the austral summers 2002 and 2005 — Ampharetidae, Opheliidae, and Scalibregmatidae, pp. 51-68 in Zootaxa 1705 on pages 58-59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.180892 ...