Pherecardites Horst 1912 ...

• Main Authors: Bleeker, Joke, Harris, Leslie, Ten Hove, Harry A., Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Amphinomida; Amphinomidae; Pherecardites; Hove; Median Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8183866; https://zenodo.org/record/8183866

Genus Pherecardites Horst, 1912 Pherecardites Horst, 1912: 33. Branchamphinome Hartman, 1967: 42 n. syn. TYPE SPECIES. — Pherecardites parva Horst, 1912, by monotypy. GENDER. — Feminine, after the epithet originally proposed for the type species, parva Brown (1954: 590) indicates parvus is a Latin masculine adjective, meaning little or small ( parva feminine, parvum neuter (see below). DIAGNOSIS. — Amphinominae with chaetiger 1 dorsally incomplete. Caruncle with a median ridge and separate, diverging lateral lobes. Branchiae from chaetiger 1. Neurochaetae spurred, with denticles along inner side. REMARKS Pherecardites Horst, 1912 was described without an illustration of the anterior end. Fauchald (1977) included Pherecardites Horst, 1912 in his key to all genera; however, Fauchald regarded the body shape of Branchamphinome as oval, whereas for Pherecardites it was assumed as rectangular. Nevertheless, Hartman (1967: 43) indicated the body shape of the type species, B. antarctica Hartman, 1967 changes ... : Published as part of Bleeker, Joke, Harris, Leslie, Ten Hove, Harry A. & Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., 2023, Pherecardites Horst, 1912 and Branchamphinome Hartman, 1967 are synonyms (Annelida, Amphinomidae, Amphinominae), pp. 435-443 in Zoosystema 45 (13) on pages 437-439, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a13, http://zenodo.org/record/8177448 ...