Flabegraviera fujiae Jimi, Tsujimoto, Watanabe, Kakui & Kajihara, 2017, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Jimi, Naoto, Tsujimoto, Megumu, Watanabe, Kentaro, Kakui, Keiichi, Kajihara, Hiroshi
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Terebellida; Flabelligeridae; Flabegraviera; Flabegraviera fujiae; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6039708; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6039708

Flabegraviera fujiae sp. nov. (New Japanese name: Fuji-kibukure-habouki) (Figs 1–2) Type material. Holotype. NSMT-Pol-H-609. Complete (some chaetae broken, dissected), sex undetermined, nonreproductive-adult, Nishinoura (69°00.4´S, 39°34.5´E), 9 m depth, sandy mud, 16 Jan., 1981. Description. Holotype (NSMT-Pol-H-609) 9.4 cm long, 1.8 cm wide. Body fusiform, covered by very thick tunic (Fig. 1 A). Tunic transparent, gel-like, covering whole body except cephalic cage (partially eroded); sediment grains attached dorsally, ventrally, and laterally (size in long axis ~40 µm), not immersed in tunic. Body papillated; papillae long, clavate, forming sheath covering chaetae, mostly eroded. Lobe on dorsum of chaetiger 1 absent. Dorsal and ventral surface irregular. Prostomium low cone. Branchiae 6–8 rows, about 110 filaments per side, 3–5 mm long, decreasing in size ventrally, black in ethanol. Branchial plate crescent-like, bisected by well-developed caruncle (Fig. 1 B). Palps long (6 mm), cylindrical, pink in ... : Published as part of Jimi, Naoto, Tsujimoto, Megumu, Watanabe, Kentaro, Kakui, Keiichi & Kajihara, Hiroshi, 2017, A new species and the shallowest record of Flabegraviera Salazar-Vallejo, 2012 (Annelida: Flabelligeridae) from Antarctica, pp. 477-485 in Zootaxa 4221 (4) on pages 478-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4221.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/252505 ...