Chaetozone ...

• Main Author: Lavesque, Nicolas
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Terebellida; Cirratulidae; Chaetozone; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6049831; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6049831

Key to 12 Chaetozone species from the North Atlantic Ocean (Note: Recent published descriptions of Chaetozone caputesocis and C. zetlandica do not fully agree with the definition of Chaetozone and are not included in the following key; MG = Methyl Green). 1 Anterior body with distinctly enlarged fusiform segments anterior to abdominal segments............................2 - Anterior body segments only slightly enlarged, gradually tapering posteriorly......................................3 2 Anterior body segments enlarged dorsally into hump-backed configuration; peristomium not divided into rings, dorsal tentacles arising from posterior margin of peristomium; posterior parapodia with partial cinctures, up to 8 spines on a side; MG pattern not tested................................................................................. C. gibber - Anterior segments enlarged forming distinct fusiform shape; peristomium with two distinct rings, dorsal tentacles arising from smaller second peristomial ring; posterior ... : Published as part of Lavesque, Nicolas, 2017, A new species of Chaetozone (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae) from the Bay of Biscay offshore France, together with a review of Chaetozone species from the North Atlantic and adjacent waters, pp. 565-579 in Zootaxa 4312 (3) on pages 572-573, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/855617 ...