New species and records of deep-water Orbiniidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Eastern Pacific continental slope, abyssal Pacific Ocean, and the South China Sea
Author
Blake, James A.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-02-03
4730
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4730.1.1
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Genus
Berkeleyia
Hartman, 1971
. Emended
Blake 2017
Type-species:
Berkeleyia profunda
Hartman, 1971
,
Mozambique
Basin,
4886–5069 m
.
Diagnosis.
(Emended) Prostomium pointed, conical; peristomium with one or two achaetous rings. Branchiae from posterior thoracic or abdominal segments. Thoracic noto- and neuropodia with one postsetal lobe, sometimes absent or inconspicuous on anteriormost setigers; subpodial lobes absent; abdominal setigers with simple noto- and neuropodia; neuropodia with or without ventral cirrus; interramal cirri absent. Thoracic noto- and neurosetae all capillaries. Abdominal notosetae include capillaries; pointed spines present or absent; furcate setae present or absent; neuropodia with capillaries and protruding acicular spines; or only spines.
Remarks
. The genus
Berkeleyia
is similar to
Leitoscoloplos
in lacking spines or uncini in thoracic neuropodia. Species of
Berkeleyia
, however, have elongate neuropodial spines in abdominal setigers and sometimes abdominal notopodial spines.
Until recently,
Berkeleyia
was known for a single deep-water species,
B. profunda
Hartman, 1971
, from the Indian Ocean.
Blake (2017)
described four additional species from off South America and
Antarctica
, three of which were from deep water, with
B. hadala
Blake, 2017
from the Peru-Chile trench in
6143 m
representing the deepest known occurrence for an orbiniid polychaete. Another deep-water species has been discovered at the Juan de Fuca Ridge associated with hydrothermal vents and is described here.