Sternaspis sendalli Salazar-Vallejo, 2014, n. sp.

• Main Author: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Terebellida; Sternaspidae; Sternaspis; Sternaspis sendalli; Scotia Sea; Palmer Archipelago
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6137640; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6137640

Sternaspis sendalli n. sp. Figs 4, 5 Sternaspis scutata: Monro 1930: 178 –179; Augener 1932: 56; Hartman 1953: 10; 1966: 55, Pl. 18, Fig. 1; 1967: 141 (partim, non Ranzani, 1817). Type material. Holotype. Scotia Sea. South Orkneys. Holotype (BMNH 1930.10.8.2372– 2400), and five paratypes (BMNH 1930.10.8.2372– 2400 p), damaged (12.0– 12.5 mm long, 5–6 mm wide, abdomen 7.0– 8.3 mm long; left shield plate 1.3–2.8 mm long, 2.0– 2.2 mm wide). Additional material. Scotia Sea. Palmer Archipelago. Two specimens (BMNH 1930.10.8.2316), R.V. Discovery, Sta. 190, 315 m, 24 Mar. 1927 (largest specimen with abdomen depressed, shield broken; 10–12 mm long, 4.5–5.5 mm wide, abdomen 6–7 mm long; left shield plate 1.5–1.7 mm long, 1.8 – 1.8 mm wide). Ten specimens (BMNH 1930.10.8.2319– 2340), R.V. Discovery, Sta. 181, 160 – 335 m, 3 Dec. 1927 (juveniles; one specimen with pharynx fully everted, scoop-shaped; 5.5 –8.0 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, abdomen 2.5 –5.0 mm long; left shield plate 0.7–1.3 mm long, 0.8–1.4 mm wide; suture wide, posterior notch well defined, even in smaller specimens). Ten specimens (BMNH 1930.10.8.2353– 2370), R.V. Discovery, Sta. 182, 278 – 500 m, 14 Mar. 1927 (juveniles; 3.0– 7.5 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, abdomen 2–4 mm long; left shield plate 0.5–1.1 mm long, 0.6–1.1 mm wide). South Georgia. Three specimens (BMNH 1930.10.8.2224- 2225), juveniles, R.V. Discovery, Sta. 144, 155 – 178 m, 5 Jan. 1927 (body 6.0– 6.5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, abdomen 3.0– 3.5 mm long; left shield plate 1.1 mm long, 1.1 mm wide). Six specimens (BMNH 1930.10.8.2301- 2303), body wall broken, one broken into two pieces, four with pharynx everted in different stages, R.V. Discovery, Sta. 45, 238 – 270 m, 6 Apr. 1927 (6.3 –7.0 mm long, 2.0– 2.8 mm wide, abdomen 3.8–4.8 mm long; left shield plate 1.2–1.3 mm long, 1.0– 1.1 mm wide; mature females with oocytes 150–200 µm). South Orkneys. Nine specimens (BMNH 1930.10.8.2482– 2488), R.V. Discovery, Sta. 162, 320 m, 17 Feb. 1927 (body 10.5 –11.0 mm long, 4–5 mm wide, abdomen 6–7 mm long; left shield ...