Harmothoe spinifera

• Main Authors: Barnich, Ruth, Fiege, Dieter
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Phyllodocida; Polynoidae; Harmothoe; Harmothoe spinifera; Hansnes; McIntosh; Molde; Norway; Tromsø
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5323878; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5323878

Harmothoe spinifera (Ehlers, 1864) (Figs. 1, 31A–H) Polynoe spinifera Ehlers, 1864: 95, pl. 3 figs. 1–4, 6; Claparède, 1868: 376, pl. 2 fig. 4A–E. Harmothoe spinifera: Fauvel, 1923: 64, fig. 23f–l; Chambers & Muir, 1997: 110, fig. 29; Barnich & Fiege (2000): 1894, figs. 2A, 3A–C; Barnich & Fiege (2003): 53, figs. 12A, 28A–C. Polynoe torquata Claparède, 1868: 378, pl.2 fig. 3. Polynoe laevigata Claparède, 1870: 378, pl. 1 fig.3a–h. Harmothoe sibbaldii McIntosh, 1876a: 378, pl. 1 fig. 3a–h. Harmothoe meteorae Augener, 1931: 279 fig. 1 [new synonymy]. Type material. Polynoe spinifera, Polynoe laevigata, and Harmothoe sibbaldii: types probably lost. Polynoe torquata: 2 slides, MHNG 795, 796, with elytra and parapodia, probably from type material. Harmothoe meteorae: 1 syntype, ZMH V10236, Meteor 1925–1927, Gulf of Guinea, Fernando Po, Sta. Isabella, shallow water, leg. Hentschel. Additional material. NE Atlantic: 1 spm., SMF 15275, Georg Berna-Expedition 1861, N Norway, Molde Fjord. 1 spm., SMF 17284, N Norway, Tromsø area, some km E of Hansnes, 26 April 2002, exposed shore, below stones, leg. & ded. C. d’Udekem d’Acoz. 3 spms., SMF 17285 –17287, N Norway, Tromsø area, Kroken, 12/ 13 March 2005, shore, leg. & ded. C. d’Udekem d’Acoz. 2 spms., SMF 11744, Azores, Faial Island, Monte da Guia, on Antipathes, 19 August 1999, leg. C. d’Udekem d’Acoz & P. Wirtz. 1 spm., SMF 11810, Azores, Faial Island, Porto, 1m, below Paracentrotus lividus, 09 June 1999, leg. P. Wirtz. 1 spm., SMF 11808, Azores, Faial Island, Monte da Guia, 41 m, on shell growing on Antipathes, 18 August 1999, leg. C. d’Udekem d’Acoz. Mediterranean: 1 spm. (juvenile), SMF 9192, Banyuls-sur-mer, coralligène, 26 March 1997, 26 m, leg. D. Fiege and R. Barnich. (For further material see Barnich & Fiege 2000 and 2003). Diagnosis. Anterior pair of eyes anteroventral beneath cephalic peaks. Elytral margin smooth (except for very short papillae on anteriormost elytra), surface covered by scattered, low, conical microtubercles. In ...