Three new species of Diplocirrus Haase, 1915 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae) from Campos Basin in SE Brazil
Author
Teixeira, Juliana Henrique
Author
Rizzo, Alexandra Elaine
Author
Santos, Cinthya Simone Gomes
text
Zootaxa
2015
4027
2
287
295
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4027.2.8
8dcb1038-d556-49c8-8649-50202fa770f6
1175-5326
236450
9096376A-C64F-46D7-8E75-55B56E495A4F
Key to the species
Diplocirrus
Haase, 1915
(modified from
Salazar-Vallejo & Buzhinskaja, 2011
)
1. Body papillae abundant............................................................................................................................................. 2
- Body papillae scarce, long, tunic looks bare
..........................................................
Diplocirrus
sp. from
Sri Lanka
(*)
2(1). Body papillae short, giving a velvety appearance..................................................................................................... 3
- Body papillae long, giving a hirsute appearance. ................................................................................................... 13
3(2). Body without sand particles ......................................................................................................................................4
- Body with sand particles ........................................................................................................................................... 9
4(3). Ventrolateral gonopores present in some anterior chaetigers.................................................................................... 5
- Ventrolateral gonopores absent ................................................................................................................................. 7
5(4). First chaetiger with long chaetae, about half as long as body width; caruncle posteriorly expanded ........................
.................................................................................................................
D. erythroporus
Gallardo, 1968
(
Vietnam
)
- Anterior end with short chaetae, 1/3–1/5 as long as body width; caruncle posteriorly tapering .............................. 6
6(5). Median chaetigers with neurochaetae tapering, 22–25 articles, and tip delicately falcate; cirriform branchiae with lamellae along basal ¼–1/5 of each filament
...........................................
D. branchiatus
(
Rullier, 1965
)
(
Australia
)
- Median chaetigers with neurochaetae barely tapering, 8–11 articles, and tip markedly falcate; cirriform branchiae with lamellae along basal 1/3–1/2 of each filament ................................................................................................... ....................................................................................
D. nicolaji
(
Buzhinskaja, 1994
)
(Northwestern Sea of
Japan
)