Serpulids (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Eastern Pacific, including a brief mention of Hawaiian serpulids
Author
Bastida-Zavala, J. Rolando
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-03-07
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Salmacina chilensis
Gallardo, 1969
(
Figures 10
F-G)
Salmacina chilensis
Gallardo, 1969: 9–12
, pl. I and II, figs. 1–6.
Type
locality:
20º48’S
,
70º21’W
, off
Punta Patache
,
Chile
.
Salmacina chilensis
.—
Nogueira and ten Hove, 2000: 158–159
, tab. 1–2 (discussion of the genus).
Diagnosis.
Tube white, thin. Branchial crown with 9–10 radioles per lobe; radiole tip not inflated. Opercular peduncle or operculum absent. Thorax with seven chaetigers. Collar with fin-and-blade chaetae, with proximal denticulate expansion separate of distal limbate zone (
Fig. 10F
), with numerous teeth (
Fig. 10G
). All thoracic chaetigers (except collar segment) with “
Apomatus
” chaetae. Thoracic uncini saw shaped, with eight rows of teeth and two teeth in each row. Abdomen with 36 chaetigers.
Habitat.
Depth:
282 m
.
On the brachyuran crab
Lophorochinia parabranchia
.
Distribution.
Only known from northern
Chile
(
Gallardo 1969
).
Taxonomic remarks.
According to
Nogueira and ten Hove (2000)
,
Salmacina chilensis
is very different to any other species of
Salmacina
, in terms of the large number of radioles present. Moreover, the arrangement of the teeth in the fin-and-blade collar chaetae (
Figs 10F–G
) “is rather more reminiscent of
Protis
or
Chitinopoma
, than of
Salmacina
” (
Nogueira & ten Hove 2000: 157
).