Harmothoe spinifera

• 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 spinifera; Hansnes; Tromsø
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5323878; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A61979C21EFFE6FF18FA54FCAB1750

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. ...