A revision of Australian Pectinariidae (Polychaeta), with new species and new records
Author
Zhang, Jinghuai
Author
Hutchings, Pat
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-05-27
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10.11646/zootaxa.4611.1.1
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Genus
Lagis
Malmgren, 1866
Type
species.
Lagis koreni
Malmgren, 1866
Diagnosis.
Cephalic veil at least partially fused to operculum. Anterior rim of cephalic veil with numerous long cirri. Dorsal and lateral margins of semicircular operculum smooth, ventral margin with numerous notopodial paleae on each side. Comb-like branchiae on segments 3
–
4. Notopodia other than those of segment 1, which bear paleae, on segments 5
–
19 (15 pairs), with notochaetae. Neuropodia, 13 pairs, with transverse row of uncini, on segments 8
–
19. Uncini with more than two longitudinal rows of major teeth. Scaphe flattened dorsally, with anal flap, and distinctly separate from posterior segments.
Remarks.
The genus
Lagis
currently has 10 species recorded from around the world:
Lagis koreni
Malmgren, 1866
,
L. abranchiata
(
Fauvel, 1932
)
,
L. australis
(
Ehlers, 1904
)
,
L. bocki
(
Hessle, 1917
)
,
L. crenulatus
Sun & Qiu 2012
,
L. hupferi
(
Nilsson, 1928
)
,
L. neapolitana
(
Claparède, 1869
)
,
L. plurihamus
Choi, Jung & Yoon, 2017
,
L. pseudokoreni
(
Day, 1955
)
, and
L. tenera
Hartmann-Schröder, 1959
. Only one species
L. australis
(
Ehlers, 1904
)
is recorded from Australasian waters in Lyttelton,
New Zealand
(see Table 2). The genus
Lagis
is easily distinguished from other two genera
Amphictene
and
Pectinaria
which are present in Australian waters by the cephalic veil which is partially fused to the opercular lateral margin. We describe two species of
Lagis
from
Australia
, including a new species
L. portus
n. sp.
from Sydney and
Lagis
sp. from Weipa,
Queensland
. This is the first record of the genus from Australian waters.