Amage benhami Reuscher, Fiege & Wehe, 2009, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Reuscher, Michael, Fiege, Dieter, Wehe, Thomas
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Terebellida; Ampharetidae; Amage; Amage benhami; Antarctic; Granite Harbor; Pacific; Ross Sea; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6219207; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6219207

Amage benhami sp. nov. (Fig. 1 a–g) Amage sculpta — Benham 1927: 121 -123, Tab. III, figs. 94–99. Specimens examined. Holotype, So 109/2, station 119 TVG, 44°40.146' N, 125°6.685' W, 625 m, 24.6.1996, 1 cs (SMF 17813). Additional specimens: Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition, Ross Sea: opposite of Granite Harbor, Station 340, 76°56’S, 164°12’E, 293 m, mud, 2 cs (BMNH 1928.2.29.2/3), det. Benham as Amage sculpta Ehlers, 1908. Description. Length of holotype 14 mm without anal cirri; width (excl. parapodia) 1.9 mm. Body almost broken in two parts between thorax and abdomen, held together by thin dermal ribbon on ventral side (Fig. 1 a). Anterior part of body broad, tapering gradually from unciniger 7. Prostomium with two conspicuous anterolateral horns (Fig. 1 b). No eye-spots. A pair of nuchal organs visible as oval fields framed by posterior U-shaped lobe (Fig. 1 b). Buccal tentacles withdrawn but tip of one tentacle visible, without papillae. Four pairs of branchiae. Left and right group of branchiae widely ... : Published as part of Reuscher, Michael, Fiege, Dieter & Wehe, Thomas, 2009, Four new species of Ampharetidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Pacific hot vents and cold seeps, with a key and synoptic table of characters for all genera, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 2191 on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189379 ...