Harmothoe oculinarum

• Main Authors: Barnich, Ruth, Fiege, Dieter
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Phyllodocida; Polynoidae; Harmothoe; Harmothoe oculinarum; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5323866; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A61979C214FFEEFF18FF10FBD817C6

Harmothoe oculinarum (Storm, 1879) (Figs. 5, 27A–I) Laenilla oculinarum Storm, 1879: 33. Polynoe oculinarum: Storm (1888): 85. Harmothoe oculinarum: Levinsen (1884): 289; Bidenkap (1894b): 47; Ditlevsen (1917): 30 [part, only spms. from Trondheimfjord]; Holthe (1977): 12; Loshamn (1980, unpublished thesis): 136, Fig. 66; Fiege & Barnich (in press): Type material . Probably lost. Additional material . NE Atlantic: 1spm., SMF 16990, “Johan Ruud” St. 702, Norway, Økssund, Kalvholneset, 68°02.18’N 15°15.67’E, 454 m, 24 September 2002, on Lophelia pertusa , triangular dredge, leg. C. d’Udekem d’Acoz. (For further material see Fiege & Barnich, in press). Diagnosis. Anterior pair of eyes dorsolateral at widest part of prostomium. Elytral surface and outer lateral and posterior margin densely covered by short papillae; patch of conical microtubercles present near anterior margin (missing in posterior elytra). Description (based on additional specimen SMF 16990, since type material probably lost). Body with 41 segments. At anterior end (Fig. 27A), prostomium bilobed, with distinct cephalic peaks; ceratophore of median antenna in anterior notch, lateral antennae inserted ventrally, styles of antennae papillate, tapering to filiform tip; anterior pair of eyes situated dorsolaterally at widest part of prostomium, posterior pair dorsally near hind margin of prostomium; palps papillate, tapering. Tentaculophores inserted laterally to prostomium, each with two notochaetae and a dorsal and ventral tentacular cirrus, styles of cirri papillate, tapering to filiform tip. Second segment with first pair of elytra, biramous parapodia, and long buccal cirri. Following segments with tapering, short ventral cirri. Fifteen pairs of elytra, covering dorsum, on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, then on every second segment to 23, 26, 29, 32; last nine segments cirrigerous; elytral surface and outer lateral and posterior margin densely covered by short papillae; patch of conical microtubercles present near anterior margin (missing in posterior ...