A collection of Sabellidae (Polychaeta) from Carrie Bow Cay (Belize, western Caribbean Sea) with the description of two new species
Author
Giangrande, Adriana
Author
Licciano, Margherita
Author
Gambi, Maria Cristina
text
Zootaxa
2007
1650
41
53
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.179763
7a09c8f0-4c8c-4d34-b9ad-24734ef7e88a
1175-5326
179763
Branchiomma nigromaculatum
(Baird, 1865)
Sabella crispa
Kroyer, 1856
;
Sabella nigromaculata
Baird, 1865
;
Dasychone nigromaculatum
McIntosh, 1885
(Plate XXXI, Figs 4, 6),
Branchiomma nigromaculata
Johansson, 1927
; San Martin
et al.
, 1994; Knight-Jones, 1994;
Tovar-Hernández and Salazar-Vallejo, 2006
.
Material examined.
One specimen collected at
0.5 m
as an epibiont on dead shell of
Strombus
(
Tricornis
)
gigas
collected within
Thalassia
in the Carrie Bow Cay shallow lagoon between the island and the outer reef (not listed in Table 1);
1 specimen
on dead coral rubble at
7 m
off the W entrance of Twin Cays (sample CBC- KF 1007);
2 specimens
on dead coral rubble at
18 m
(CBC-KF 1018);
1 specimen
in
Thalassia
at
4 m
on the N-E external side of Twin Cays (sample CBC-KF 1019).
Remarks.
Collected specimens are small, about
15 mm
in length, compared to sizes reported in the literature of up to
60 mm
reported for this species. Radioles with dark brown bands alternating with white and orange bands, two pairs of macrostylods twice as long as their neighboring pairs, alternate along the radioles with small sub-digitiform stylodes.
The species is endemic of the Caribbean Sea region. A recent redescription is available in
Tovar-Hernández and Salazar-Vallejo (2006)
who clarified the complex synonymies and geographical distribution of this species.