Revision of the Mediterranean species of Harmothoe Kinberg, 1856 Lagisca Malmgren, 1865 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae: Polynoinae) descriptions of a new genus and a new species
Author
Barnich, R.
Author
Fiege, D.
text
Journal of Natural History
2000
34
1889
1938
journal article
1464-5262
Harmothoe fragilis
Moore, 1910
(fi gure 11A -D)
Harmothoe
(
Evarne
)
fragilis
Moore, 1910: 353
, pl. 29: fi gures 29, 30, pl. 30: fi gures 31, 32.
Harmothoe fragilis
: Tebble and Chambers, 1982: 38
, fi gures 5c, d, 12a, 37; Hartmann-SchroÈder, 1996: 44; Chambers and Muir, 1997: 100, fi gure 24.
Type material
.
Harmotho e
fragilis
,
PARATYPES
: 1 spm. (labelled`cotype’), St. 4418,
April 1904
,
Albatross
, off
Santa Barbara
, Cal., 238 fathoms depth, dark mud and sand,
USNM 17147
. 1 spm., St. 4413
,
11 April 1904
,
Albatross
R
/
V
, off
Santa Catalina Island
,
California
, 152 fathoms depth, fi ne sand,
USNM 73013
(1) indeterminable; only one elytron in bad shape
).
Additional material
.
1 spm.,
6 October 1995
,
Banyuls
, vase coÃtieÁre, leg.
D. Fiege
,
SMF 9211
/
1. 1 spm.,
10 October 1995
,
Banyuls
, vase coÃtieÁre,
88 m
,`
Attila’
-dredge, leg.
D. Fiege
,
SMF 9212
/1.
Diagnosis
.
Anterior
pair of eyes dorsolaterally on widest part of prostomium.
Elytra
: margin with fringing papillae; surface covered by conical microtubercles and few scattered papillae, with a row of rounded, soft and fl attened macrotubercles near posterior margin.
Dorsal
and ventral tentacular cirri and dorsal cirri papillate, tapering.
IG
. 11.
Harmothoe fragilis
(
10 October 1995
, Banyuls,
SMF 9212
/1). (A) Anterior end; right palp and styles of median antenna, of left dorsal and right dorsal and ventral tentacular cirri missing; dorsal view; (B) left anterior elytron; (C) detail of posterior margin of same; (D) style of dorsal cirrus (scales 5
1 mm
for A, B; 250
M
m for C; 500
M
m for D)
.
1912