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, L, Brasier, MJ, Wiklund, H
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Magnolia Press 2018
• Subjects: Biological Sciences; Ecology; Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology); Amundsen Sea; McIntosh; Scotia Sea; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4455.1.1; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/146248

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...