Terebellides rigel Schüller & Hutchings, 2013, sp.n. ...

• Main Authors: Schüller, Myriam, Hutchings, Pat
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Terebellida; Trichobranchidae; Terebellides; Terebellides rigel; Rigel; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6149417; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6149417

Terebellides rigel sp.n. Figs 12, 13, 14 Holotype: ANDEEP III, St. 78-9, EBS (ZMH-26023) Paratypes: ANDEEP III, St. 121-7, AGT [drawing, MG photo] (AM W39660); ANDEEP III, St. 78-9, EBS (3 specimens, ZMH-26021, ZMH-26022, ZMH-26024); ANDEEP III, St. 80-9, EBS (ZMH-26025); ANDEEP III, St. 142- 5, EBS (2 specimens, AM W39661, AM W39662); ANDEEP III, St. 142-5, EBS [SEM, stub MI495] (AM W38715) Description: (Based on both holotype and paratypes) Holotype 6 mm in length, 1 mm in width, posteriorly incomplete with 18 chaetigers, gravid, body cavity with oocytes. Paratypes ranging in length from 4–6 mm and 0.2–1.0 mm in width, all posteriorly incomplete, all with thorax complete but with only 0–5 abdominal segments. Head region: Tentacular membrane compact, with little expansion. Lower lip rectangular, only laterally slightly expanded (Figs 12, 13 A). Tentacles only short simple ones present on outer margins of tentacular membrane (Fig. 13 A, B). Branchiae: Anterior branchial lobes free from each other, lamellae ... : Published as part of Schüller, Myriam & Hutchings, Pat, 2013, New species of Terebellides (Polychaeta: Trichobranchidae) from the deep Southern Ocean, with a key to all described species, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 3619 on pages 19-22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/219061 ...