Contribution to the taxonomic knowledge of Ampharetidae (Annelida) from Antarctica with the description of Amage giacomobovei sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Schiaparelli, Stefano, Jirkov, Igor A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: ddc:590; Malmgren; Mario Zucchelli; Ross Sea; Terra Nova Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55737; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-557377; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-557377; http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/55737/container.zip

Thanks to newly collected material from the Terra Nova Bay area (Ross Sea, Antarctica), we discuss the taxonomy of the ampharetid genera Amage Malmgren, 1866 and Amythas Benham, 1921. A new species of Amage, A. giacomobovei sp. nov., is described based on morpho-anatomical data. This is the second n...