First records of Composetia, Eunereis and Nectoneanthes (Annelida: Nereididae) from Taiwan, with descriptions of two new species
Author
Hsueh, Pan-Wen
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-12-12
4531
2
211
224
journal article
27786
10.11646/zootaxa.4531.2.3
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1175-5326
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Subfamily
Nereidinae
Blainville, 1818
Genus
Composetia
Hartmann-Schröder, 1985
Ceratonereis
(
Composetia
)
Hartmann-Schröder 1985
: 49
.
Composetia
Bakken & Wilson 2005
: 520–521.
Type
species.
Ceratonereis (Composetia) costae
(
Grube, 1840
)
(designated by
Hartmann-Schröder 1985
)
Remarks.
Composetia
was erected as a subgenus of
Ceratonereis
Kinberg, 1865
by
Hartmann-Schröder (1985: 49)
with 29 species listed for the subgenus, including
Ceratonereis (Composetia) burmensis
(Monro, 1937) (
Burma
)
.
Bakken & Wilson (2005)
elevated
Composetia
to generic rank and assigned only two species to this genus, which are
C
.
irritabilis
(Webster, 1879)
(
Virginia
,
USA
) and
C
.
scotiae
(Berkeley & Berkeley, 1956)
(
Nova Scotia
,
Canada
). The other 27 species of
Ceratonereis
(
Composetia
)
, including
type
species of this newly ranked genus are excluded due to insufficient information. The status of these 27
Ceratonereis
(
Composetia
)
species remains unsolved today.
Wu (1967)
did report
C
.
(
C
.)
burmensis
from
Taiwan
.
Lee & Glasby (2015)
synonymised
Ceratonereis (Composetia) burmensis
with
Neanthes glandicincta
Southern, 1921
. Therefore, the report of
Composetia
in the present study represents the first record of the genus for
Taiwan
.