Chaetozone bathyala Blake, 2015, new species ...

• Main Author: Blake, James A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Terebellida; Cirratulidae; Chaetozone; Chaetozone bathyala; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Pacific; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Van Veen; Malmgren; Baffin; Subarctic; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5664934; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5664934

Chaetozone bathyala new species Figures 5–6 Chaetozone setosa: Blake & Dean 1973, in part. Not Malmgren 1867. Material examined. Canadian subarctic: Western Hudson Strait, CSS Hudson cruise 90-023, Sta. 100, collected between 23 September and 16 October 1991, van Veen grab, 63°04.07ʹN, 74°34.00ʹW, 393 m, Western Hudson Strait, holotype (LACM-AHF Poly 6535), 19 paratypes (LACM-AHF Poly 6536). Southern Baffin Bay, R/V Hero Sta. 26 A, 1745 m, 67°49ʹN, 60°46ʹW, coll. J.A. Blake, 16 Aug 1968, 8 specimens (USNM 51222). Description. A moderate-sized species, holotype complete, 11.5 mm long, 0.8 mm wide across thoracic region, with 80 setigerous segments; all paratypes incomplete but of similar size as holotype. Body widest anteriorly, with short, crowded segments (Figs. 5 A–B, 6A), narrowing posteriorly with segments becoming nearly as long as wide (Fig. 6 D); one of two ovigerous paratypes with abdominal segments nearly moniliform, with body widest anteriorly, narrow crowded segments at least 8–10 times wider ... : Published as part of Blake, James A., 2015, New species of Chaetozone and Tharyx (Polychaeta: Cirratulidae) from the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic and the Northeastern Pacific, including a description of the lectotype of Chaetozone setosa Malmgren from Spitsbergen in the Norwegian Arctic, pp. 501-552 in Zootaxa 3919 (3) on pages 512-513, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/234051 ...