Pectinaria Lamarck 1818

• Main Authors: Zhang, Jinghuai, Hutchings, Pat
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Terebellida; Pectinariidae; Pectinaria; Black Island; Murray Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5670303; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/586F0669FFB7FFCDFF7BFDB6BFFB289C

Pectinaria sp. Figs 35–36, Table 3 Material examined. Australia: Queensland: AM W.2648, 1 spec., Murray Island, Torres Strait, 09°33’S 144°03’E, coll. M. Ward, Oct 1928; AM W.2615, 1 spec., Great Barrier Reef, Low Isles, 16°23’S 145°34’E, coll. G.P. Whitley W. Boardman, Aug 1928; AM W.100, 1 spec., off South Mission Beach, Dunk Island, 17°57’S 146°09’E, coll. E.J. Banfield, Feb 1910; AM W.3117, 1 spec., Hayman Island, Whitsunday Pass, 20°03’S 148°53’E, coll. F.A. McNeill, Jan 1934; AM W.3028, 1 spec., Whitsunday Group, 20°03’S 148°53’E, coll. F.A. McNeill, Jan 1933; AM W.4292, 1 spec., Black Island, near Langford Reef, Whitsunday Group, 20°05’S 148°54’E, shallow water, coll. N. Coleman, Nov 1969; AM W.2649, 1 spec., Lindeman Island, Whitsunday Pass, 20°27’S 149°02’E, 16 m, coll. M. Ward, Jan 1929. Description . Based on all specimens examined. Preserved specimen pale reddish in colour, conical in shape (Fig. 35A – B). Body length 27.0 – 76.0 mm including paleae and scaphe, width 8.8 – 18.5 mm at cephalic regions. Cephalic veil trapezoidal, anterior margin wider and straight, free from operculum, with 20 – 28 smooth cirri on anterior margin and 2/3 of lateral margins, 5 – 6 pairs of long cirri on lateral margins (Fig. 35A, C). Pair of earshaped lobes adjacent to both sides of dorsal base of cephalic veil. Buccal tentacles with wide longitudinal grooves, arising posterior to cephalic veil (Fig. 35C). Operculum semicircular; dorsal and lateral margin well developed, smooth; ventral margin (opercular ridge) with 10 – 13 pairs of golden paleae, most broken, curved dorsally, with blunt tips (Fig. 35A – B, D). First pair of tentacular cirri short with annuli, not extending beyond tips of paleae, arising from connection of opercular margin and paleal ridge (Fig. 35B, D). Pair of small ventral lappets present behind tentacular cirri near cephalic veil on segment 1 (Fig. 35C). Ventral region of segment 1 covered by buccal tentacles and ventral lobes of segment 2 (Fig. 35A, C). Second pair of tentacular cirri short not ...