Higher classification of the Monostilifera (Nemertea: Hoplonemertea)
Author
Kajihara, Hiroshi
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-01-28
4920
2
151
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4920.2.1
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Cinclidonemertes mooreae
Crandall, 2010
Remarks
Established based on four specimens, up to
3.7 mm
in length, collected from
19–25 m
depth near Wauwermans Islands,
Antarctica
. With four eyes. The rhynchocoel is “composed of single fibres spaced apart from one another in a partially woven lattice” (
Crandall 2010: 2412
), a character state that cannot readily be interpreted as decisively homologous with that in
Cratenemertea
and/or
Plectonemertidae
. The cerebral organs are large, located behind the pre-cerebral septum, lying beside and beneath the brain, and thus conforming to those in
Cratenemertea
, but also in
Proamphiporus
Chernyshev & Polyakova, 2019
. The vascular plug is “broad and flat, lying tightly against ventral wall of rhynchocoel” (
Crandall 2010: 2421
), but one of the original figures (
Crandall 2010
, fig. 12) depicts it as if there are two vascular plugs, reminiscent of the character state in
Oerstediina
. The taxonomic placement of the family
Cinclidonemertidae
Crandall, 2010
, the genus
Cinclidonemertes
Crandall, 2010
, and
C. mooreae
among
Monostilifera
thus requires further scrutiny.