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<taxonomicName id="4C024D2B834EFF96FF274EC9979E276C" ID-CoL="84ND3" authority="Eliason, 1955" authorityName="Eliason" authorityYear="1955" box="[151,440,1519,1545]" class="Polychaeta" family="Ampharetidae" genus="Eclysippe" kingdom="Animalia" order="Terebellida" pageId="3" pageNumber="200" phylum="Annelida" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B976EABA834EFF96FF274EC9979E276C" bold="true" box="[151,440,1519,1545]" pageId="3" pageNumber="200">
<emphasis id="B976EABA834EFF96FF274EC9972D276C" bold="true" box="[151,267,1519,1545]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="200">Eclysippe</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B59834EFF96FEA24EC9979E276C" author="Eliason" box="[274,440,1519,1545]" pageId="3" pageNumber="200" refString="Eliason, A. (1955) Neue oder wenig bekannte schwedische Ampharetiden (Polychaeta). GOteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar, 6 (16), 1 - 17." type="journal article" year="1955">Eliason, 1955</bibRefCitation>
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species:
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<emphasis id="B976EABA834EFF96FE964D109799272E" box="[294,447,1590,1611]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="200">Lysippe vanelli</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B59834EFF96FE754D13946F272E" author="Fauvel" box="[453,585,1589,1611]" pageId="3" pageNumber="200" refString="Fauvel, P. (1936) Contribution a la faune des annelides polychetes du Maroc. Memoires de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc, 43, 1 - 143." type="journal article" year="1936">Fauvel, 1936</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="B976EABA834EFF96FF274D5E975F27F4" bold="true" box="[151,377,1656,1681]" pageId="3" pageNumber="200">Generic diagnosis.</emphasis>
Prostomium without glandular ridges. Buccal tentacles smooth. Three pairs of cirriform branchiae. Notochaetae of segment II enlarged as paleae. Twelve thoracic uncinigers. Posterior thoracic uncinigers strongly elongated. Two intermediate uncinigers. Abdominal rudimentary notopodia absent.
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Curiously, both valid species of the genus,
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<emphasis id="B976EABA834EFF96FCE44DC3923F2798" box="[852,1049,1765,1789]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="200">Eclysippe vanelli</emphasis>
(
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)
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and
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<emphasis id="B976EABA834EFF96FAA44DC393BA2798" box="[1300,1436,1765,1789]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="200">E. trilobata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B59834EFF96FF2E4C2F97762644" author="Hartman" box="[158,336,1800,1825]" pageId="3" pageNumber="200" refString="Hartman, O. (1969) Atlas of the sedentariate polychaetous annelids from California. Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 812 pp." type="book" year="1969">Hartman, 1969</bibRefCitation>
)
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were originally described with four pairs of branchiae.
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B59834EFF96FBB34C2E92892644" author="Eliason" box="[1027,1199,1800,1825]" pageId="3" pageNumber="200" refString="Eliason, A. (1955) Neue oder wenig bekannte schwedische Ampharetiden (Polychaeta). GOteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar, 6 (16), 1 - 17." type="journal article" year="1955">Eliason (1955)</bibRefCitation>
accredited Fauvels diagnosis to a misinterpretation of notopodia as bases of the fourth pair of broken branchiae and redescribed the species
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<emphasis id="B976EABA834EFF96FF5E4C7797B1260D" box="[238,407,1872,1896]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="200">Lysippe vanelli</emphasis>
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in the new genus
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<emphasis id="B976EABA834EFF96FDD04C7694EB260D" box="[608,717,1872,1896]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="200">Eclysippe</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B59834EFF96FD644C769556260C" author="Eliason" box="[724,880,1872,1897]" pageId="3" pageNumber="200" refString="Eliason, A. (1955) Neue oder wenig bekannte schwedische Ampharetiden (Polychaeta). GOteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar, 6 (16), 1 - 17." type="journal article" year="1955">Eliason, 1955</bibRefCitation>
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. This new diagnosis of
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<emphasis id="B976EABA834EFF96FBC74C7792C4260D" box="[1143,1250,1872,1896]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="200">E. vanelli</emphasis>
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has been widely accepted (e.g.
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B59834EFF96FEF94C5297F926E8" author="Holthe" box="[329,479,1908,1933]" pageId="3" pageNumber="200" refString="Holthe, T. (1986) Polychaeta Terebellomorpha. Marine Invertebrates of Scandinavia, 7, 1 - 192." type="journal article" year="1986">Holthe 1986</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B59834EFF96FE434C5294A126E8" author="Hilbig" box="[499,647,1908,1933]" pageId="3" pageNumber="200" refString="Hilbig, B. (2000) Family Ampharetidae Malmgren, 1866. In: Blake, J. A., Hilbig, B. &amp; Scott, P. V. (Eds.), Taxonomic atlas of the benthic fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Annelida Part 4. Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae to Sternaspidae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, pp. 169 - 230." type="book chapter" year="2000">Hilbig 2000</bibRefCitation>
).
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<emphasis id="B976EABA834EFF96FD114C53950C26E8" box="[673,810,1909,1933]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="200">E. trilobata</emphasis>
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, described as
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<emphasis id="B976EABA834EFF96FC524C53924326E8" box="[994,1125,1909,1933]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="200">Anobothrus</emphasis>
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by
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, was redescribed with three pairs of branchiae by
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B59834EFF96FD364CBE951B26D4" author="Williams" box="[646,829,1944,1969]" pageId="3" pageNumber="200" refString="Williams, S. J. (1987) Taxonomic notes on some Ampharetidae (Polychaeta) from Southern California. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 7, 251 - 258." type="journal article" year="1987">Williams (1987)</bibRefCitation>
upon examination of the
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specimens and assigned to
<taxonomicName id="4C024D2B834EFF96FF044C9B970726B0" box="[180,289,1981,2005]" class="Polychaeta" family="Ampharetidae" genus="Eclysippe" kingdom="Animalia" order="Terebellida" pageId="3" pageNumber="200" phylum="Annelida" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B976EABA834EFF96FF044C9B970726B0" box="[180,289,1981,2005]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="200">Eclysippe</emphasis>
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.
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<bibRefCitation id="EF934B598349FF91FF774BBE976F21D5" author="Day" box="[199,329,152,176]" pageId="4" pageNumber="201" refString="Day, J. H. (1973) New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. NOAA Technical Reports, National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars, 375, 1 - 140. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 62852" type="journal article" year="1973">Day (1973)</bibRefCitation>
argued that specimens of
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FDCB4BBF94CE21D5" box="[635,744,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">E. vanelli</emphasis>
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described by
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B598349FF91FC3D4BB1921221D5" author="Eliason" box="[909,1076,151,176]" pageId="4" pageNumber="201" refString="Eliason, A. (1955) Neue oder wenig bekannte schwedische Ampharetiden (Polychaeta). GOteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar, 6 (16), 1 - 17." type="journal article" year="1955">Eliason (1955)</bibRefCitation>
were different from specimens reported by
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B598349FF91FE924B9A97E721B0" author="Fauvel" box="[290,449,188,213]" pageId="4" pageNumber="201" refString="Fauvel, P. (1936) Contribution a la faune des annelides polychetes du Maroc. Memoires de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc, 43, 1 - 143." type="journal article" year="1936">Fauvel (1936)</bibRefCitation>
and subsequently described a new species,
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FC074B9A92B021B1" box="[951,1174,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">Samythella eliasoni</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B598349FF91FB2E4B9B933521B1" author="Day" box="[1182,1299,188,213]" pageId="4" pageNumber="201" refString="Day, J. H. (1973) New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. NOAA Technical Reports, National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars, 375, 1 - 140. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 62852" type="journal article" year="1973">Day, 1973</bibRefCitation>
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from
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, which, according to Day, was identical to the Swedish
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FCDC4BC795F1219D" box="[876,983,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">E. vanelli</emphasis>
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specimens described by
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B598349FF91FB5F4BF993BF219D" author="Eliason" box="[1263,1433,223,248]" pageId="4" pageNumber="201" refString="Eliason, A. (1955) Neue oder wenig bekannte schwedische Ampharetiden (Polychaeta). GOteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar, 6 (16), 1 - 17." type="journal article" year="1955">Eliason (1955)</bibRefCitation>
. However, he assigned the species to
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FD804A22948B2079" box="[560,685,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">Samythella</emphasis>
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because of the uncertainty in the number of branchiae in
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FA9F4A2293BA2079" box="[1327,1436,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">Eclysippe</emphasis>
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(see discussion above) and because it fit into the generic diagnosis of
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FC1E4A0E920D2025" box="[942,1067,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">Samythella</emphasis>
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according to his opinion. We do not follow Days opinion because the latter genus lacks the elongation of posterior thoracic uncinigers that is characteristic for
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FEEF4A5697EA20ED" box="[351,460,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">Eclysippe</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Furthermore,
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FDC84A5694D320ED" box="[632,757,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">Samythella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has broad, foliaceus branchiae, whereas
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FB7C4A56931F20ED" box="[1228,1337,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">Eclysippe</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has thin cylindrical branchiae. In his description of
<taxonomicName id="4C024D2B8349FF91FD3A4AB2951D20C8" authority="Day" authorityName="Day" box="[650,827,404,429]" class="Polychaeta" family="Ampharetidae" genus="Samythella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Terebellida" pageId="4" pageNumber="201" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="eliasoni">
<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FD3A4AB2952420C9" box="[650,770,404,428]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">S. eliasoni</emphasis>
Day
</taxonomicName>
did not mention the elongation of posterior thoracic uncinigers, which is the most conspicuous character of
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FCB14A9E954820B5" box="[769,878,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">Eclysippe</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Therefore, the generic affiliation of
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FABE4A9E93A520B5" box="[1294,1411,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">S. eliasoni</emphasis>
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is uncertain.
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B598349FF91FEA14AFB97B22090" author="Day" box="[273,404,476,501]" pageId="4" pageNumber="201" refString="Day, J. H. (1963) The Polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 8: New species and records from grab samples and dredgings. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 10 (7), 383 - 445." type="journal article" year="1963">Day (1963)</bibRefCitation>
described another species,
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FD664AFA95822091" box="[726,932,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">Samythella affinis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B598349FF91FC1E4AFB92032090" author="Day" box="[942,1061,476,501]" pageId="4" pageNumber="201" refString="Day, J. H. (1963) The Polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 8: New species and records from grab samples and dredgings. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, 10 (7), 383 - 445." type="journal article" year="1963">Day, 1963</bibRefCitation>
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that bears some resemblance to
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<emphasis id="B976EABA8349FF91FF2749269722237D" box="[151,260,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="201">Eclysippe</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, even though Day did not mention the elongated posterior thoracic uncinigers and acknowledged that the generic affiliation of this species was uncertain.
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