Occurrence and distribution of Pseudoscalibregma and Scalibregma (Annelida, Scalibregmatidae) in the deep Nordic Seas, with the description of Scalibregma hanseni n. sp.
Author
Bakken, Torkild
Author
Oug, Eivind
Author
Kongsrud, Jon Anders
text
Zootaxa
2014
3753
2
101
117
journal article
46760
10.11646/zootaxa.3753.2.1
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1175-5326
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PseudoscalIbregma
Ashworth, 1901
Pseudoscalibregma
Ashworth, 1901
: 296
.
Type
species:
Scalibregma parvum
Hansen, 1879
Diagnosis (emended).
Body elongate, posterior part tapering (‘arenicoliform’). Prostomium T-shaped with distinct lateral processes. Posterior parapodia with dorsal and ventral cirri. Branchiae absent. Large acicular spines absent; small thin, pointed or bifurcate spines present in chaetiger 1.
Remarks
. The diagnosis for the genus follows
Blake (1981)
, with the exception of details concerning the presence of small spines in the first chaetiger as observed in the recently described species,
P. orientalis
from
Japan
(
Imajima 2009
) and in the
type
species
P. parvum
(present study, see below). The spines are similar to the thin spines in chaetigers
1–2 in
species of
Scalibregma
that may be blunt or bifurcate. The spines are believed to be homologues of the furcate setae found in more posterior chaetigers (
Mackie 1991
).