A new branchiate hesionid polychaete (Annelida, Hesionidae) from New Caledonia Author Ruta, Christine Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratório de Polychaeta, Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Sala A 0 - 108, Bloco A, IB CCS, Ilha do Fundão, CEP 21940 - 590 Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil) rutachristine @ gmail. com rutachristine@gmail.com Author Pleijel, Fredrik Department of Marine Ecology, TjärnÖ Marine Biological Laboratory, GÖteborg University, SE- 452 96 StrÖmstad (Sweden) and Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Évolution, CNRS UMR 7138, Systématique, Adaptation, Évolution, case postale 26, 43 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) fredrik. pleijel @ tmbl. gu. se .. pleijel@tmbl.gu.se text Zoosystema 2006 28 3 655 667 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5399508 1638-9387 5399508 Hesiobranchia lifouensis n. sp. ( Figs 1-3 ) “Undescribed hesionid from Lifou, Loyalty Islands ” – Pleijel & Rouse 2004 : fig. 2. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Loyalty Islands . Lifou, Santal Bay, Cape Aimé Martin, 20°46.7’S , 167°02.6’E , among dead Acropora , 20 m , scuba, 11.XI.2000 , coll. F. Pleijel, A new branchiate hesionid polychaete ( Annelida ) from Loyalty Islands holotype ( MNHN POLY TYPE 1446 , and two slides with parapodia 1447, 1448) ; 1 paratype ( MNHN POLY TYPE 1449 , and four slides with parapodia 1450-1453). — Lifou , Santal Bay , Cape Aimé Martin , 20°45.51’S , 167°01.98’E , among dead corals, 25 m , scuba, 21.XI.2000 , coll. F. Pleijel , 1 paratype ( MNHN POLY TYPE 1454 ) ; 1 specimen (mounted for SEM, in F. Pleijel’s collection). FIG. 1. — Live picture of Hesiobranchia lifouensis n. gen., n. sp. , paratype (MNHN POLY TYPE 1449), dorsal view, c. 5 mm in length. ETYMOLOGY. — Named for the type locality, Lifou. DISTRIBUTION. — Only known from Lifou, Loyalty Islands , New Caledonia . DESCRIPTION