Six new deep-water sternaspid species (Annelida, Sternaspidae) from the Pacific Ocean

• Published in: ZooKeys
• Main Authors: Salazar-Vallejo,Sergio, Buzhinskaja,Galina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2013
• Subjects: Polychaete; taxonomy; systematics; introvert color; shield fan; shield development; Bya; New Zealand; Okhotsk; Pacific; Iceland; okhotsk sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.348.5449; https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/3481/

Most sternaspid species have been described from shallow water, and Caulleryaspis Sendall & Salazar-Vallejo, 2013 includes one deep water species: C. gudmundssoni Sendall & Salazar-Vallejo, 2013 from Iceland. In Sternaspis Otto, 1821, the most speciose genus, most species were described from...