A new species and the shallowest record of Flabegraviera Salazar-Vallejo, 2012 (Annelida: Flabelligeridae) from Antarctica

A new species of polychaete, Flabegraviera fujiae sp. nov., is described and the first report of F. mundata (Gravier, 1906) from the shallow water around Syowa Station, Antarctica, is presented. Flabegraviera fujiae sp. nov. resembles F. profunda Salazar-Vallejo, 2012 but is discriminated from the l...

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Published in:Zootaxa
Main Authors: JIMI, NAOTO, TSUJIMOTO, MEGUMU, WATANABE, KENTARO, KAKUI, KEIICHI, KAJIHARA, HIROSHI
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Mangolia Press 2017
Subjects:
Annelida
Polychaeta
taxonomy
Antarctica
Syowa Station
Nishinoura
Gravier
Antarc*
Online Access:http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4221.4.4
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4221.4.4
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Summary:A new species of polychaete, Flabegraviera fujiae sp. nov., is described and the first report of F. mundata (Gravier, 1906) from the shallow water around Syowa Station, Antarctica, is presented. Flabegraviera fujiae sp. nov. resembles F. profunda Salazar-Vallejo, 2012 but is discriminated from the latter by having eyes and an exposed cephalic cage. The specimen of F. mundata was collected from a depth of 8 m, providing the shallowest record of this species to date.

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