Revision of Leocrates Kinberg, 1866 and Leocratides Ehlers, 1908 (Annelida, Errantia, Hesionidae)
Author
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-02-18
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Key to genera of
Hesioninae
Grube, 1850
fide
Pleijel, 1998
(modif.
Rizzo & Salazar-Vallejo 2014
)
1
Prostomium with palps; median antennae present or absent....................................................
2
-
Prostomium without palps; median antennae absent; pharynx unarmed................
Hesione
Savigny
in
Lamarck, 1818
2(1)
Palps biarticulate; parapodia sesquiramous (with dorsal cirri but without notochaetae), or biramous....................
3
-
Palps simple; parapodia sesquiramous; median antenna absent.........................
Elisesione
Salazar-Vallejo, 2016
3(2)
Pharynx unarmed; parapodia sesquiramous; neurochaetal blades bifid, without guards.........
Dalhousiella
McIntosh, 1901
-
Pharynx with upper and lower jaws, sometimes upper one double; parapodia sesquiramous or biramous.................
4
4(3)
Anterior chaetigers without notochaetae, middle and posterior ones biramous; neurochaetal blades often with guards......
5
- All chaetigers sesquiramous; pharynx upper jaw double, T-shaped, lower jaw single, fang-shaped; neurochaetal blades bidentate, without guards................................................................
Leocratides
Ehlers, 1908
5(4)
Nuchal organs without lateral projections, sometimes projected posteriorly........................................
6
-
Nuchal organs L-shaped, lateral projections often extended beyond lateral prostomial margins........................
9
6(5)
Prostomial posterior region reduced, as long as, or smaller than anterior one; nuchal organs lobes horizontal C-shaped, never pigmented; pharynx with upper and lower jaws single, fang-shaped.............................................
7
- Prostomial posterior region projected posteriorly, often as long as prostomial anterior region, or longer than it, rarely wider distally (in too contracted specimens this region can be collapsed); nuchal organs lobes U-shaped, sometimes pigmented...
8
7(6)
Neurochaetal blades bidentate, guards usually present; notochaetae from chaetiger 5, subdistally denticulate, denticles coarse or fine......................................................................
Leocrates
Kinberg, 1866
restr
.
- Neurochaetal blades unidentate, sometimes with guards surpassing main tooth; notochaetae from chaetiger 4, smooth.........................................................................................
Paraleocrates
n. gen
.
8(6)
Pharynx with upper jaw double, T-shaped, lower one transverse plate; neurochaetae often brownish...........................................................................................
Dalhousia
McIntosh, 1885
reinstated
- Pharynx with upper and lower jaws single, fang-shaped; sometimes with a circlet of round denticles; neurochaetae pale, not brownish...........................................................................
Paradalhousia
n. gen
.
9(5)
Pharynx with upper and lower jaws single, fang-shaped; peristomial dorsolateral and ventrolateral tubercles low, barely projected.....................................................................
Lamprophaea
Grube, 1867
reinst.
- Pharynx with upper jaw double, T-shaped, lower one a transverse plate; peristomial dorsolateral and ventrolateral tubercles projected........................................................................
Paralamprophaea
n. gen.