Anobothrus Levinsen 1884 ...

• Main Authors: Schüller, Myriam, Jirkov, Igor A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Terebellida; Ampharetidae; Anobothrus; Malmgren; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6152268; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6152268

Anobothrus Levinsen, 1884 Type species: Ampharete gracilis Malmgren, 1866 Synonyms: Anobothrella Hartman, 1967: 155 –156, Melythasides Desbruyères, 1978: 232 –235, Sosanides Hartmann-Schröder, 1965: 243 –246. Diagnosis: (emended) Prostomium trilobed, without glandular ridges. Buccal tentacles smooth or papillated. Chaetae in TS-2 present or absent. 3–4 pairs of smooth branchiae, anterior 3 pairs arranged in a transverse row without gap. A pair of nephridial papillae present behind innermost branchiae. 14–16 TCs starting from TS-3 or TS-4, 11–12 TUs, starting from TS-6. 4th, 5th or 6th to last notopodia shifted dorsally, connected by a glandular ridge. If dorsal shift of notopodia absent, posterior TUs prolonged. Circular whitish band present in one anterior TS. AUs 1 and 2 with neuropodia similar to thoracic neuropodia. Abdominal rudimentary notopodia absent. Remarks: The genus Anobothrus is one of the most speciose ampharetid genera world-wide and the most speciose genus reported for the Southern Ocean and ... : Published as part of Schüller, Myriam & Jirkov, Igor A., 2013, New Ampharetidae (Polychaeta) from the deep Southern Ocean and shallow Patagonian waters, pp. 204-237 in Zootaxa 3692 (1) on page 216, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3692.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/247905 ...