Kirkegaardia (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae), new name for Monticellina Laubier, preoccupied in the Rhabdocoela, together with new records and descriptions of eight previously known and sixteen new species from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Author: BLAKE, JAMES A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mangolia Press 2016
• Subjects: Annelida; Antarctica; Atlantic Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Mediterranean Sea; Southern Ocean; New England; Puget Sound; Larsen Ice Shelf; Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone; Peru-Chile Trench; deep-sea; new species; Tharyx; mud ball worm; tessellated tube; Chile Trench; Pacific; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4166.1.1

A new name, Kirkegaardia, is proposed to replace Monticellina Laubier, 1961, a bitentaculate cirratulid polychaete genus, that is a junior homonym of the turbellarian Monticellina Westblad, 1953 (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela). In addition, the opportunity is taken to complete a major revision of the...