Torbenwolffia Zenkevitch 1966

• Main Author: Biseswar, Ramlall
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Echiuroidea; Bonelliidae; Torbenwolffia; Stump; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5469057; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5469057

Genus Torbenwolffia Zenkevitch, 1966 Torbenwolffia galatheae Zenkevitch, 1966 (Fig. 1 A-C) MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Porcupine Abyssal Plain, BENGAL 3, Discovery 229, stn 13200#94, 48°50.99’N, 16º26.03’W, 4847 m, 25.VII.1997, 1. DESCRIPTION Colour of preserved specimen is light pink. Only basal stump of proboscis is attached to trunk, the rest is missing. Lateral margins of proboscis unite proximally to form a narrow lower lip ventral to mouth (Fig. 1A). Trunk is cylindrical, 53 mm long and 12 mm at broadest part. Body wall in anterior half of trunk is thick and opaque, in posterior half it is thinner and devoid of papillae. Papillae are microscopic, arranged in concentric rings around the trunk. Gonopore located on rounded elevation of body wall (Fig. 1A). Ventral setae absent. Published as part of Biseswar, Ramlall, 2005, Report on some deep-sea echiurans (Echiura) of the North-East Atlantic, pp. 37-46 in Zoosystema 27 (1) on page 38, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5392733