Sabellaria and Lygdamis (Polychaeta: Sabellariidae) from reefs off northeastern Brazil including a new species of Sabellaria
Author
Santos, André Souza Dos
Author
Brasil, Ana Claudia Dos Santos
Author
Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey
text
Zootaxa
2014
3881
2
125
144
journal article
42292
10.11646/zootaxa.3881.2.2
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1175-5326
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Lygdamis
Kirtley, 1994
: 116
.
Type
species
.
Lygdamis indicus
Kinberg, 1867
, by monotypy.
Type
locality.
Bangka Straits, Java,
Indonesia
.
Diagnosis
. Operculum with separated lobes, distal end sloped posteriorly, opercular paleae straight, smooth, outer ones flat and inner ones cylindrical, spine-like (Capa
et al.
2012).
Description
. Operculum longer than wide, lobes completely separated, distal end sloped posteriorly (oblique to longitudinal axis). Numerous opercular papillae around edge of lobes. Outer paleae in semicircles, straight, with flat blades, lateral and distal margins smooth. Inner opercular chaetae in one row along inner margin, opercular lobes with straight and cylindrical or slightly flattened blades. One pair of nuchal spines with bent tips (hooks) and without limbations. Palps similar in size to operculum. Median organ elongate at the dorsal junction of lobes of opercular stalk. Tentacular filaments compound (branching); buccal flaps absent. Neuropodia of segment 1 with conical cirrus, with or without capillary chaetae. Segment 2 with three triangular-shaped lobes between noto- and neuropodia, in some species rounded and small. Four parathoracic segments with notochaetae consisting of lanceolate and capillary chaetae and neurochaetae similar in shape but smaller. Branchiae from segment 2 to midabdominal segments (
Kirtley 1994
; Hutchings
et al.
2012).