The Ophryotrocha labronica group (Annelida: Dorvilleidae) — with the description of seven new species
Author
Paxton, Hannelore
Author
Åkesson, Bertil
text
Zootaxa
2010
2713
1
24
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.199650
04935f31-4d00-404d-9016-4831c3313c83
1175-5326
199650
Ophryotrocha notoglandulata
Pfannenstiel, 1972
Table 1
Ophryotrocha notoglandulata
Pfannenstiel, 1972
: 117
, figs. 1-3;
Pleijel & Eide 1996
;
Dahlgren
et al.
2001
;
Heggøy
et al.
2007
;
Wiklund
et al.
2009
.
Material examined.
Live cultures from specimens collected at the Misaki Marine Biological Station, Sagami Bay,
Japan
, in 1961 by Prof. C. Hauenschild.
Diagnosis.
Prostomium with short, ovate antennae, palps absent; two eyes medially connected; parapodia uniramous, lacking dorsal and ventral cirri, with dorsal protrusion; supra-acicular simple chaetae and subacicular finely serrated falcigers; pygidium with two cirri, pygidial median stylus absent in adults; up to 12 dorsal median rosette glands on posterior segments in males, eight in females; anterior edge of mandibles with 22–25 teeth, maxillae with falcate P1-forceps, bidentate P2-forceps, K-forceps right bidentate, left falcate; gonochoristic; chromosomes 2n = 6; diameter of eggs 120–130 µm; released larvae without parapodia, with long pygidial median stylus.
Remarks.
Ophryotrocha notoglandulata
can be distinguished from all other species of the
O. labronica
group by its larger maximum size and greater number of rosette glands.
Distribution.
Western North Pacific: Sagami Bay,
Japan
.