Redescription of Capitella capitata (Fabricius) from West Greenland and designation of a neotype (Polychaeta, Capitellidae)

• Published in: Zoosymposia
• Main Author: BLAKE, JAMES A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zoosymposia 2009
• Subjects: Type species; reproduction; larval development; Arctic; Greenland; Uummannaq Fjord; Disko Bay; Subarctic; Uummannaq
• Online Access: http://www.mapress.com/j/zs/article/view/zoosymposia.2.1.7; https://doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.2.1.7

Capitella capitata (Fabricius, 1780), the type species of the genus, was originally described from the SW coast of Greenland; however, current definitions of the species are largely based on Eisig (1887), who described specimens from Naples on the Mediterranean coast. Eisig’s excellent account of th...