Pavelius Kuznetsov & Levenstein 1988

• Main Authors: Reuscher, Michael G., Fiege, Dieter
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Terebellida; Ampharetidae; Pavelius; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Okhotsk; okhotsk sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6067563; https://zenodo.org/record/6067563

Pavelius Kuznetsov & Levenstein, 1988 Type species: Pavelius uschakovi Kuznetsov & Levenstein, 1988 Generic diagnosis (emended). Prostomium without lobes or glandular ridges. Buccal tentacles smooth. Four pairs of branchiae. Notochaetae in segment II present, followed by fifteen thoracic chaetigers. Twelve thoracic uncinigers. Two intermediate uncinigers. Males with one pair of nephridial papillae above notopodia of first thoracic unciniger. Remarks. The generic diagnosis was emended to accommodate our findings in the newly described species. The genus was described lacking notopodial rudiments, which we found in the intermediate uncinigers and first abdominal unciniger. The large nephridial papillae above the notopodia of the first thoracic unciniger only seem to occur in male specimens. We do not follow Jirkov (2001, 2011), who suggested to synonymize Pavelius with Phyllocomus Grube, 1878. Phyllocomus is characterized by strongly modified branchiae and a very large number of abdominal uncinigers. : Published as part of Reuscher, Michael G. & Fiege, Dieter, 2016, Ampharetidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from cold seeps off Pakistan and hydrothermal vents off Taiwan, with the description of three new species, pp. 197-208 in Zootaxa 4139 (2) on page 204, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/262112 : {"references": ["Kuznetsov, A. P. & Levenstein, R. Y. (1988) [Pavelius uschakovi gen. et sp. n. (Polychaeta, Ampharetidae) from Paramushir Gas Hydrate Spring in the Okhotsk Sea]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 67 (6), 819 - 825. [in Russian]", "Jirkov, I. A. (2001) [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean]. Yanus-K, Moskva, 632 pp. [in Russian]", "Jirkov, I. A. (2011) Discussion of taxonomic characters and classification of Ampharetidae (Polychaeta). Italian Journal of Zoology, 78, 78 - 94. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 11250003.2011.617216", "Grube, A. E. (1878) Anneliden - Ausbeute S. M. S. Gazelle. Monatsberichte der KOniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1877, 509 - 554."]}