Intertidal and nearshore Nereididae (Annelida) of the Falkland Islands, southwestern Atlantic, including a new species of Gymnonereis
Author
Darbyshire, Teresa
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.427.7296
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.427.7296
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Taxon classification Animalia Phyllodocida Nereididae
Genus
Gymnonereis Horst, 1919
Gymnorhynchus
Horst, 1918: 247. - Pre-occupied by
Gymnorhynchus
Rudolphi, 1819;
Cestoda
(paper cited from
Pettibone 1970
).
Gymnonereis
Horst, 1919: 64. -
Pettibone 1970
: 234. -
Banse 1977
: 621-622 (in part).
Type species.
Gymnonereis sibogae
(Horst, 1918) by monotypy
Diagnosis
(after
Hutchings and Reid 1990
). Body elongate, depressed, attenuated posteriorly. Prostomium with frontal margin deeply incised between bases of frontal antennae.
Eversible pharynx with jaws having cutting edge smooth or serrated, with papillae on the oral ring. Notopodia with accessory dorsal cirri attached to dorsal cirrophores in anterior region only, with prechaetal lobes and short, rounded postchaetal lobes. Median segments with dorsal cirrophores greatly elongated and highly vascularized (except in
Gymnonereis crosslandi
) and lacking accessory cirri. Dorsal transverse ridges present or absent. Chaetae homogomph or sesquigomph spinigers and homogomph or sesquigomph falcigers may be present. Chaetae very numerous in anterior chaetigers.
Remarks.
Hutchings and Reid (1990)
used the term 'sesquigomph', in a review of Australian
Gymnonereidinae
, to describe those chaetae that have a 3:2 ratio between the
boss
and opposing prong of the shaft. Such chaetae were referred to as 'slightly hemigomph' by
Fauchald (1977)
or 'slightly heterogomph' by
Hylleberg and Nateewathana (1988)
in their descriptions of
Gymnonereis
. Terminology referring to the additional dorsal (=accessory dorsal) cirrus and ventral (=double ventral) cirri follow that of both
Hutchings and Reid (1990)
and
Santos et al. (2005)
in the first instance but only
Santos et al. (2005)
in the second. Finally, the parapodial projections referred to as 'prechaetal
ligules'
in both
Hylleberg and Nateewathana (1988)
and
Hutchings and Reid (1990)
are here termed prechaetal lobes, after
Santos et al. (2005)
, who defined notopodial projections supported by aciculae as lobes and those without aciculae as ligules and found notopodial ligulae to be absent in
Gymnonereis
. This definition has also been applied here to the previously-termed 'neuropodial prechaetal
ligules'
, referred to here as neuropodial prechaetal lobes (Fig. 1).