Scolelepis Blainville 1828

• Main Author: Götting, Miriam
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Spionida; Spionidae; Scolelepis; White Sea; Lizard Island; Fang; Malmgren
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5665398; https://zenodo.org/record/5665398

Genus Scolelepis Blainville, 1828 Scolelepis Blainville, 1828; type-species: Lumbricus squamata Müller, 1806, by monotypy. Aonis sensu Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833 [Not Savigny, 1822] (misapplication of Savigny´s genus for Nereis caeca (Nephtyidae)) Asetocalamyzas Tzetlin, 1985 (dwarf male of a spionid, not a parasitic syllid as originally described) Nerine Johnston, 1838 (subjective synonym) Nerinides Mesnil, 1896 (subjective synonym) Pseudomalacoceros Czerniavsky, 1881 (subjective synonym) Scolecolepis Malmgren, 1867 (unjustified emendation) [Synonymy fide Read, 2015] Diagnosis. Prostomium pointed on anterior margin, sometimes truncate, posteriorly extended into pointed caruncle, rarely flattened or depressed or blunt, caruncle attached or detached; occipital tentacle present or absent. Peristomium well-developed, with or without lateral wings encompassing prostomium partially. Nuchal organs and metameric dorsal ciliated organs not discernable (by means of light microscopy). Palps without median ciliated groove, but usually with two distinctly or indistinctly separated bands of transverse rows of cilia present. Branchiae present from chaetiger 2, continuing to near end of body, in anterior chaetigers completely fused to notopodial lamellae or distally free; accessory branchiae present or absent. Anterior chaetae limbate capillaries, usually arranged in two rows; posteriorly hooks and capillaries present, hooks with 0–3 apical teeth with a falcate or straight shaft (subgenus Scolelepis ) or multidentate with large main fang, several apical teeth and curved shaft (subgenus Parascolelepis ). In Parascolelepis palpal sheaths are well-developed, in Scolelepis palpal sheaths are short and fused to the palp. Pygidium with oval disc or multilobed. Remarks. According to Eibye-Jacobsen (1997) Scolelepis ( Parascolelepis ) appears to be defined on the basis of good autapomorphies, whereas Scolelepis ( Scolelepis ) may well be paraphyletic. Some authors have used Scolelepis and Parascolelepis as full genera (e.g., Blake & Arnofsky 1999, Williams 2007) though a formal statement regarding this matter was not given. : Published as part of Götting, Miriam, 2015, Spionidae (Annelida: ' Polychaeta': Canalipalpata) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia: the genera Malacoceros, Scolelepis, Spio, Microspio, and Spiophanes, pp. 378-413 in Zootaxa 4019 (1) on page 386, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/234234 : {"references": ["Blainville, H. de. (1828) Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. F. G. Levrault, Strasbourg, 47, 368 - 501.", "Muller, O. F. (1806) Zoologica Danica seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae rariorum ac minus notoruum. Descriptiones et Historia. Havniae, 160 pp.", "Audouin, J. V. & Milne-Edwards, H. (1833) Classification des annelides et description de celles qui habitent les cotes de la France. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris, 30, 411 - 425.", "Savigny, J. C. (1822) Systeme des annelides, principalement de celles des cotes de l'Egypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caracteres tant distinctifs que naturels des ordres, familles et genres, avec la description des especes. Description de l'Egypte ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en`Egypte pedant l'expedition de l'Armee Francaise. Troisieme Partie. Systemes de diverses classes d'animaux sans vertebres. de l'Imprimerie Imperiale, Paris, pp. 3 - 128. [separate reprint from Description de l'Egypte, without plates]", "Tzetlin, A. B. (1985) Asetocalamyzas laonicola gen. et sp. n., a new ectoparasitic polychaete from the White Sea. Zoologichesky Zhurnal, 64, 269 - 298.", "Johnston, G. (1838) Miscellanea zoologica, Aricidae. Magazine of Zoology and Botany, 2, 63 - 73.", "Mesnil, F. (1896) Etudes de morphologie externe chez les Annelides: les Spionidiens des cotes de Manche. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, 29, 110 - 287.", "Czerniavsky, V. (1881) Material ad zoographiam Ponticam. Fasc. III Vermes. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 55, 211 - 363.", "Malmgren, A. J. (1867) Annulata Polychaeta; Spetsbergiae, Groenlandiae, Islandiae et Scandinaviae. Hactenus cognita, Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, 24, 1 - 127. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 13358", "Read, G. (2015) Scolelepis Blainville, 1828. In: Read, G. & Fauchald, K. (Eds.), World Polychaeta database. Available from: World Register of Marine Species at http: // www. marinespecies. org / aphia. php? p = taxdetails & id = 129623 (accessed 12 February 2015)", "Eibye-Jacobsen, D. (1997) A new species of Scolelepis (Polychaeta: Spionidae), highly abundant on the sand beaches of western Phuket Island, Thailand. Bulletin of Marine Science, 60 (2), 240 - 251.", "Blake, J. A. & Arnofsky, P. L. (1999) Reproduction and larval development of the spioniform Polychaeta with application to systematics and phylogeny. Hydrobiologia, 402, 57 - 106. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 94 - 017 - 2887 - 4 _ 4", "Williams, J. D. (2007) New records and description of four new species of spionids (Annelida: Polychaeta: Spionidae) from the Philippines: the genera Dispio, Malacoceros, Polydora, and Scolelepis, with notes on palp ciliation patterns of the genus Scolelepis. Zootaxa, 1459, 1 - 35."]}