Sphaerodoropsis Hartman & Fauchald 1971

• Main Authors: Capa, María, Rouse, Greg W.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Phyllodocida; Sphaerodoridae; Sphaerodoropsis; Lizard Island; Rouse; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6096001; https://zenodo.org/record/6096001

Genus Sphaerodoropsis Hartman & Fauchald, 1971 Type-species . Sphaerodorum sphaerulifer Moore, 1909 Diagnosis. Body generally short and ellipsoid, some forms slender. Four or more dorsal longitudinal rows of macrotubercles, in one or several transverse rows per segment. Macrotubercles sessile and smooth, without terminal papillae. Microtubercles absent. Papillae over body surface and parapodia. Head appendages short, spherical or digitiform. Parapodia with compound chaetae; hooks absent. : Published as part of Capa, María & Rouse, Greg W., 2015, Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, including the description of two new species and reproductive notes, pp. 168-183 in Zootaxa 4019 (1) on page 172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/232849 : {"references": ["Hartman, O. & Fauchald, K. (1971) Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology, 6, 1 - 327.", "Moore, J. P. (1909) The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U. S. S. Albatross of the coast of southern California in 1904. I: Syllidae. Sphaerodoridae. Hesionidae and Phyllodocidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, 61, 321 - 351."]}