Brada kudenovi Salazar-Vallejo 2017, n. sp.

• Main Author: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Terebellida; Flabelligeridae; Brada; Brada kudenovi; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Canada; Prince of Wales Strait; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6051125; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6051125

Brada kudenovi n. sp. Figure 7 Brada inhabilis.—von Marenzeller 1892: 427, Pl. 19, Fig. 6 (non Rathke, 1843). Type material. Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands. Holotype (CAS 157753), NMFS Aleutian Survey 2000, R.V. Vesteraalen, Haul 110 (51.56° N, 176.76° W), 168 m, 18 Jun. 2000, E.J. Kools, coll. One paratype (CAS 157752), most chaetae broken, NMFS Aleutian Survey 2000, R.V. Vesteraalen, Haul 111 (51.60° N, 177.21° W), 213 m, 18 Jun. 2000, E.J. Kools, coll. (26 mm long, 6.5 mm wide, 26 chaetigers; gonopodial lobes in chaetiger 4, eroded; 13–14 series of papillae in chaetiger 10; dissected for anterior end features). One paratype (CAS 158548), without chaetae, NMFS Aleutian Survey 2000, R.V. Vesteraalen, Haul 88 (51.48° N, 173.93° W), 257 m, 14 Jun. 2000, E.J. Kools, coll. (23 mm long, 7 mm wide, 26 chaetigers; gonopodial lobes in chaetiger 4, eroded; 13–14 series of papillae in chaetiger 10; body with abundant black medium-sized sediment grains). One paratype (CAS 158549), without chaetae, NMFS Aleutian Survey 2000, R.V. Vesteraalen, Haul 109 (51.60° N, 176.60° W), 143 m, 18 Jun. 2000, E.J. Kools, coll. (15.5 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, 25 chaetigers; gonopodial lobes in chaetiger 4, eroded; 13–14 series of papillae in chaetiger 10; dissected for anterior end features). Additional material. Arctic Ocean, Canada. One specimen (USNM 1422403), complete, most chaetae broken, R.V. Resolute, Banks Islands, Prince of Wales Strait, Sta. 1103 (72º53' N, 118º01' W), 26 m, mud, otter trawl, 4 Jul. 1962, E.H. Grangier, coll. (30 mm long, 9 mm wide, cephalic cage broken, 21 chaetigers). Description. Holotype whitish, most chaetae broken. Body fusiform, short, thick, almost smooth (Fig. 7A); 20 mm long, 4 mm wide, cephalic cage chaetae broken, 25 chaetigers. Papillae very small, globose (Fig. 7B), arranged in alternating transverse series, dorsally with 13–14 series per segment, ventrally smaller, 18–20 per segment; all papillae covered by thin layer of fine sediment particles and some dispersed larger dark sediment grains, especially ...