Six new species of Macellicephala (Annelida: Polynoidae) from the Southern Ocean and south Atlantic with re-description of type species

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Authors: NEAL, LENKA, BRASIER, MADELEINE J., WIKLUND, HELENA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mangolia Press 2018
• Subjects: Species descriptions; Morphology; Monophyly; Molecular phylogeny; 16S; 18S; COI; Annelida; Southern Ocean; Scotia Sea; Amundsen Sea; McIntosh
• Online Access: http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4455.1.1; https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4455.1.1

Increased sampling efforts in unexplored regions of the Southern Ocean (including depths >500 m) combined with the use of an epibenthic sledge resulted in a large collection of mobile, scale-bearing worms from the family Polynoidae Kinberg, 1856. The greatest taxonomic novelty was found in the ge...