Dysponetus bricklei Darbyshire & Brewin, 2015, n. sp. ...

• Main Authors: Darbyshire, Teresa, Brewin, Paul E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Phyllodocida; Chrysopetalidae; Dysponetus; Dysponetus bricklei; Southern Ocean; Darbyshire; Prion Island; Cooper Bay
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6112768; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6112768

Dysponetus bricklei n. sp. Figure 4 A–D Material examined. Cooper Bay, South Georgia, Sta. COOP 0 2 (54° 47.063′S, 035° 48.539′W), coralline encrusted bedrock/boulder with algal turf, 5–10 m, holotype (NMW.Z.2015.008.0001), 25.01.2010; Prion Island, South Georgia, Sta. PR002-6 (54° 1.862′S, 037° 15.032′W), coralline encrusted bedrock/boulder with algal turf, 15–18 m, 1 paratype (NMW.Z.2015.008.0002), 19.11.2010. Description. Holotype posteriorly damaged, possibly incomplete, 1.47 mm long for 22 chaetigers. Paratype complete in 3 fragments, 2.04 mm for 14 chaetigers, possibly regenerating posteriorly; 1 segment removed for SEM, 1 segment removed for sequencing (failed). Maximum width measured both between segments, 0.57 mm (holotype) and 0.44 mm (paratype), and including chaetae, 1.2 mm (holotype) and 1.09 mm (paratype). Description based on both type specimens (head appendages more visible on paratype). Body shape cylindrical, ventrally flattened, tapered over last 2–3 segments at posterior. Colour ... : Published as part of Darbyshire, Teresa & Brewin, Paul E., 2015, Three new species of Dysponetus Levinsen, 1879 (Polychaeta: Chrysopetalidae) from the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean, with a re-description of Dysponetus bulbosus Hartmann-Schröder, 1982, pp. 359-370 in Zootaxa 4040 (3) on pages 365-367, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/241445 ...