Notaulax Tauber 1879 ...

• Main Authors: Tovar-Hernández, María Ana, León-González, Jesús Ángel De, Bybee, David R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Sabellida; Sabellidae; Notaulax; Adelaide Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6048856; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6048856

Genus Notaulax Tauber, 1879 Remarks. Worms are mostly associated with coral (live and dead) or limestone, although in this study two species were found as foulers in marinas and ports from some localities in South America. The tubes have a tree trunk or leathery appearance with several gold, green olive or brown colored thin layers, from where entire worms are often hard to extract. Chemical composition of tubes has not been studied in Notaulax. Notaulax is composed of 20 species (Capa et al. 2014). Among the nominal species, only one has been described from South America: N. tilosaula (Schmarda, 1861) n. comb (described as Sabella Linnaeus, 1767, and here is transferred to the genus Notaulax). Notaulax christenseni (Augener, 1932) was described from Adelaide Island, Antarctica, at 620 m depth; Giangrande & Gambi (1997) examined the holotype (ZMO, C547) and revealed that it probably belongs to Notaulax. Unfortunately, Augener (1932) did not illustrate any structures and his description does not include ... : Published as part of Tovar-Hernández, María Ana, León-González, Jesús Ángel De & Bybee, David R., 2017, Sabellid worms from the Patagonian Shelf and Humboldt Current System (Annelida, Sabellidae): Phyllis Knight-Jones' and José María Orensanz's collections, pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 4283 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.828032 ...