Sphaerodoropsis spissum Benham 1921 ...

• Main Authors: Capa, Maria, Bakken, Torkild
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Phyllodocida; Sphaerodoridae; Sphaerodoropsis; Sphaerodoropsis spissum; Antarctic; Bakken; Antarc*; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5667479; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5667479

Sphaerodoropsis spissum (Benham, 1921) Sphaerodorum spissum Benham, 1921: 74 –77, Pl. 9, Figs 82–89.– Augener 1927: 208 –210, Fig. 11. Remarks. This species was originally described from the Sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island as a species densely covered with papillae of not exact same sizes (Benham 1921). It has been suggested that this species has longitudinal rows of macrotubercles on the ventrum (Reuscher & Fiege 2011), but this is not quite clear from the original description and illustrations. In the original description and remarks given there were obviously problems to observe necessary details, and uncertainty in observation of characters was explicitly stated (Benham 1921: 74– 77). This species was reported a few years later from the head of Sydney Harbour (Augener 1927). Due to the small size of the single specimens found then (2.5 mm long), Augener had trouble observing all details and it is not unlikely that specimen belong to S. fauchaldi with its numerous macrotubercles distributed with no ... : Published as part of Capa, Maria & Bakken, Torkild, 2015, Revision of the Australian Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) including the description of four new species, pp. 227-267 in Zootaxa 4000 (2) on page 262, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/234762 ...