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<emphasis id="2DC16805893AFFA1DFCD906BFEB36607" bold="true" box="[151,272,1549,1575]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="392">Scolelepis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893AFFA1DFCD902BFE236646" bold="true" box="[151,384,1613,1638]" pageId="14" pageNumber="392">Material examined.</emphasis>
AM W.45019, MI QLD 2441, af, formalin.
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893AFFA1DF9D9017FDF366AA" bold="true" box="[199,592,1649,1674]" pageId="14" pageNumber="392">Comparative material examined.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893AFFA1DDB89017FCF766AA" box="[738,852,1649,1674]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="392">Scolelepis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893AFFA1DC3E9017FC7666AA" box="[868,981,1649,1674]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="392">Scolelepis</emphasis>
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,
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P15527, S Pacific Ocean, Western
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, Broome, near Bali Hai, from encrustation of rock crevices in rock pools,
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P20219, S Pacific Ocean, S
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, Bahia Quillaipe, eulittoral, mud, af.
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of
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893AFFA1DB6290BBFA9B66D6" box="[1080,1336,1757,1782]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="392">Scolelepis carunculata</emphasis>
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G2992, S Pacific Ocean, Victoria, Storeham, Westernport Bay, Station V47,
<date id="6B0B92D7893AFFA1DA599164FA3B673A" box="[1283,1432,1793,1818]" pageId="14" pageNumber="392" value="1965-12-20">20 Dec 1965</date>
, almost complete.
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893AFFA1DF9D912FFEFA6742" bold="true" box="[199,345,1865,1890]" pageId="14" pageNumber="392">Description.</emphasis>
Notes on a single specimen: Anterior fragment of 33 chaetigers,
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wide,
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long. Prostomium anteriorly slightly truncated, posteriorly pointed with unattached caruncle; two pairs of minute black eyes in trapezoid arrangement located where prostomium is extended into a caruncle, anterior pair further apart; palps missing. Peristomium well developed forming low lateral wings partially encompassing prostomium posteriorly.
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<paragraph id="1F0AB417893BFFA0DF9D96F1FB7861F0" blockId="15.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">Chaetiger 1 reduced, with small elongate notopodial lamellae and larger rounded neuropodial lamellae; notochaetae absent. Branchiae from chaetiger 2, present throughout length of fragment. Notopodial lamellae folded, lower portion rounded; from chaetiger 2 distally free from branchiae; first branchiae and notopodial lamellae about the same length but from chaetiger 1318 branchiae increasingly longer than notopodial lamellae and separation becoming more conspicous; from about chaetiger 24 branchiae and notopodial lamellae again shorter, separated distally, notopodial lamellae foliate and folded. Prechaetal notopodial lamellae small, rounded, most conspicuous from chaetigers 1318. Neuropodial postchaetal lamellae rounded anteriorly, from chaetiger 18 slightly notched, becoming divided into large rounded neuropodial lamellae and small conical ventral (or subpodial) lobe, neuropodial lamellae foliate and in almost interramal position from chaetiger 20.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="1F0AB417893BFFA0DF9D97BAFC3F62CF" blockId="15.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">Anterior chaetae all capillaries without or with very narrow sheath; arranged in two rows in both rami, capillaries in anterior row slightly shorter, with very fine inconspicuous granulations near tip, capillaries in posterior row smooth. From chaetiger 20 neuropodial hooded hooks present, hooks bidentate with rudimentary apical tooth surmounting main fang, hooks numbering up to ten per fascicle, accompanied by few thin smooth alimbate capillaries anteriorly to the hooks; notochaetae smooth capillaries with very narrow sheaths, arranged in two rows with anterior chaetae distinctly shorter than posterior ones; notopodial hooks absent in examined specimen (af). Inferior capillaries in position of sabre chaetae in anterior and middle chaetigers, in hook-bearing chaetigers 12 granulated sabre chaetae with narrow sheaths present.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="1F0AB417893BFFA0DF9D949AFC086335" blockId="15.[151,1437,151,2013]" box="[199,939,764,789]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">Pygidium not present in fragmented specimen from Lizard Island.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DF9D9579FECD6318" bold="true" box="[199,366,799,824]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">Pigmentation.</emphasis>
Colour of formalin fixed specimen white without any pigmentation.
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DF9D9522FDE4637D" bold="true" box="[199,583,836,861]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">Methyl green staining pattern.</emphasis>
Inconspicuous. Posterior unattached tip of the caruncle, branchiae and postchaetal lamellae most intensely stained.
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DF9D95EAFE986385" bold="true" box="[199,315,908,933]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">Remarks.</emphasis>
The incomplete specimen from Lizard Island could not be assigned to any known species of
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DFCD95C9FEAA63E8" box="[151,265,943,968]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">Scolelepis</emphasis>
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. The fragment is rather short and thus important characters could not be examined. For this reason a species name has not been assigned.
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The specimen is similar to
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DEAE959EFD186430" box="[500,699,1015,1040]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. phyllobranchia</emphasis>
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Blake &amp; Kudenov,
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in that the notochaetae are lacking in the first chaetiger, the prostomium is anteriorly slightly truncated, and in the presence of bidentate hooded hooks from about chaetiger 20 or 23, respectively. There are also several differences: the posterior part of the prostomium of
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DADD9226FEE1645D" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. phyllobranchia</emphasis>
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is described as elevated mound with small apical papilla whereas the specimen from Lizard Island is posteriorly pointed with an unattached caruncle. The branchiae and notopodial prechaetal lamellae of anterior chaetigers were observed to be totally fused in
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DDF292CBFCCC64E5" box="[680,879,1196,1221]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. phyllobranchia</emphasis>
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whereas the branchial tips are separated from the postchaetal lamellae in the Lizard Island specimen. The typical stalks on posterior chaetigers from which separate notopodial lamellae and branchiae branch in
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DDD19293FCF2652D" box="[651,849,1268,1293]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. phyllobranchia</emphasis>
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could not unambiguously identified in our specimen though the development of leaf-like lamellae and branchiae in posterior chaetigers of the incomplete specimen (chaetiger 33 being the last chaetiger) could be observed.
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The lack of notochaetae in the first chaetiger together with a posteriorly pointed prostomium is also shared with following species of the genus
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<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DD1393E2FD1865BD" box="[585,699,1412,1437]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">Scolelepis</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DD8A93E2FCE165BD" box="[720,834,1412,1437]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">Scolelepis</emphasis>
)
</taxonomicName>
from the Pacific and Indian Oceans:
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DA5593E3FEC365E0" authority="Maciolek, 1987" authorityName="Maciolek" authorityYear="1987" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="carrascoi">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DA5593E3FA3F65BC" box="[1295,1436,1413,1436]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. carrascoi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="7B24C9E6893BFFA0DFC493C1FEF465E0" author="Maciolek" box="[158,343,1447,1472]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" refString="Maciolek, N. J. (1987) New species and records of Scolelepis (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from the East coast of North America, with a review of the subgenera. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 7, 16 - 40." type="journal article" year="1987">Maciolek, 1987</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DE2A93CEFD1C65E0" authority="Rossi, 1982" authorityName="Rossi" authorityYear="1982" box="[368,703,1447,1472]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="bullibranchia">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DE2A93CEFD8B65E0" box="[368,552,1447,1472]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. bullibranchia</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="7B24C9E6893BFFA0DD6E93C1FD1C65E0" author="Rossi" box="[564,703,1447,1472]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" refString="Rossi, M. M. (1982) A new species of Scolelepis (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Californian sand beaches. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 81, 97 - 100." type="journal article" year="1982">Rossi, 1982</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DD9593CEFB1065E0" authority="Hutchings, Frouin &amp; Hily, 1998" authorityName="Hutchings, Frouin &amp; Hily" authorityYear="1998" box="[719,1203,1447,1472]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="dicha">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DD9593CEFC8E65E0" box="[719,813,1447,1472]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. dicha</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="7B24C9E6893BFFA0DC6393C1FB1065E0" author="Hutchings" box="[825,1203,1447,1472]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" refString="Hutchings, P., Frouin, P. &amp; Hily, C. (1998) Two new species of Spionidae (Polychaeta) from Tahiti, French Polynesia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 111, 799 - 806." type="journal article" year="1998">Hutchings, Frouin &amp; Hily, 1998</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DB9893CEFAE565E0" box="[1218,1350,1447,1472]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="laciniata">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DB9893CEFAE565E0" box="[1218,1350,1447,1472]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. laciniata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Eibye- Jacobson, 1997,
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DE0093ABFCAF65C5" authority="Khlebovitch, 1959" authorityName="Khlebovitch" authorityYear="1959" box="[346,780,1484,1509]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="oligobranchia">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DE0093ABFDBA65C5" box="[346,537,1484,1509]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. oligobranchia</emphasis>
(Khlebovitch, 1959)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DC4693ABFBEB65C4" authority="Imajima, 1992" authorityName="Imajima" authorityYear="1992" box="[796,1096,1484,1509]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="planata">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DC4693ABFC3265C5" box="[796,913,1484,1509]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. planata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="7B24C9E6893BFFA0DCC793AAFBEB65C4" author="Imajima" box="[925,1096,1484,1509]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" refString="Imajima, M. (1992) Spionidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Japan. VIII. The genus Scolelepis. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A, 18, 1 - 34." type="journal article" year="1992">Imajima, 1992</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DB0C93ABFF716628" authority="Blake &amp; Kudenov, 1978" authorityName="Blake &amp; Kudenov" authorityYear="1978" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="towra">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DB0C93ABFB1465C4" box="[1110,1207,1485,1508]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. towra</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="7B24C9E6893BFFA0DB9993AAFF716628" author="Blake" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" refString="Blake, J. A. &amp; Kudenov, J. D. (1978) The Spionidae (Polychaeta) from southeastern Australia and adjacent areas with a revision of the genera. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 39, 171 - 280." type="journal article" year="1978">Blake &amp; Kudenov, 1978</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DFB89396FD656628" authority="Hutchings &amp; Rainer, 1979" authorityName="Hutchings &amp; Rainer" authorityYear="1979" box="[226,710,1519,1544]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="vexillatus">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DFB89396FED36628" box="[226,368,1519,1544]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. vexillatus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="7B24C9E6893BFFA0DED89389FD1C6628" author="Hutchings" box="[386,703,1519,1544]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" refString="Hutchings, P. &amp; Rainer, S. (1979) The polychate fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History, 13, 745 - 796. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937900770561" type="journal article" year="1979">Hutchings &amp; Rainer, 1979</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DC569396FC296628" box="[780,906,1519,1544]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="williami">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DC569396FC296628" box="[780,906,1519,1544]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. williami</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(de
<bibRefCitation id="7B24C9E6893BFFA0DC9C9389FBF36628" author="Silva" box="[966,1104,1519,1544]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" refString="de Silva, P. H. D. H. (1961) Contributions to the knowledge of the polychaete fauna of Ceylon. Part 1 - Five new species, two new varieties and several new records principally from the southern coast. Spolia Zeylandica, 29, 164 - 194." type="journal article" year="1961">Silva, 1961</bibRefCitation>
). However, all species have characters which separate them from our specimen.
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DC5B9073FC18660D" box="[769,955,1556,1581]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="bullibranchia">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DC5B9073FC18660D" box="[769,955,1556,1581]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. bullibranchia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has tridentate hooks and branchiae with darkened glandular inclusions. In
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DD4F905EFD546670" box="[533,759,1591,1616]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DD4F905EFDD06670" box="[533,627,1591,1616]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="dicha">S. dicha</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DD25905EFD546670" box="[639,759,1591,1616]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="williami">S. williami</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
and
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DC74905EFC0C6670" box="[814,943,1591,1616]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="laciniata">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DC74905EFC0C6670" box="[814,943,1591,1616]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. laciniata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
notopodial lamellae and branchiae are only basally fused and the branchiae are much longer than the notopodial lamellae whereas in our specimens only the tips of branchiae are free and the length of branchiae and folded notopodial lamellae is not very different. In contrast,
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DE5B90C3FD92669C" box="[257,561,1700,1725]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DE5B90C3FE61669D" box="[257,450,1700,1725]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="oligobranchia">S. oligobranchia</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DE8A90C3FD92669C" box="[464,561,1701,1724]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="towra">S. towra</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
and
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DD3490C3FD5A669D" box="[622,761,1700,1725]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="vexillatus">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DD3490C3FD5A669D" box="[622,761,1700,1725]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. vexillatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have branchiae which are completely fused to notopodial prechaetal lamellae in anterior chaetigers.
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DD2590AEFD5766C0" box="[639,756,1735,1760]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="planata">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DD2590AEFD5766C0" box="[639,756,1735,1760]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. planata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can be distinguished because its caruncle is flattened with distal point rather than being pointed and unattached. Also, neuropodial hooks are multidentate in
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DA59908BFAD46725" box="[1283,1399,1772,1797]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="planata">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DA59908BFAD46725" box="[1283,1399,1772,1797]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. planata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DADD908BFF7C6708" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DADD908BFF786708" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="towra">S. towra</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
and
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DE4F9176FE3E6708" box="[277,413,1808,1832]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="carrascoi">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DE4F9176FE3E6708" box="[277,413,1808,1832]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. carrascoi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
instead of being bidentate.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="1F0AB417893BFFA0DF9D9152FA3F67FC" blockId="15.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">
Another species described lacking notochaetae on the first chaetiger and having a posteriorly pointed prostomium is
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DE119131FC256750" authority="Hartmann-Schroder, 1979" authorityName="Hartmann-Schroder" authorityYear="1979" box="[331,902,1879,1904]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="balihaiensis">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DE119131FDF36750" box="[331,592,1879,1904]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">Scolelepis balihaiensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="7B24C9E6893BFFA0DD079131FC256750" author="Hartmann-Schroder" box="[605,902,1879,1904]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" refString="Hartmann-Schroder, G. (1979) Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestkuste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland im Suden). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburger Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 76, 77 - 219." type="journal article" year="1979">Hartmann-Schröder, 1979</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from Western
<collectingCountry id="67A2F487893BFFA0DB659131FB0A6750" box="[1087,1193,1879,1904]" name="Australia" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">Australia</collectingCountry>
. Examination of the
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revealed that notochaetae are present instead of absent in the first chaetiger (although partially hidden by the palps). Also, the information is added to the original description that the caruncle is not attached in the
<typeStatus id="C00E0AB5893BFFA0DFCD91A2FF5E67FD" box="[151,253,1988,2013]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
.
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DE5791A3FE1467FD" box="[269,439,1988,2013]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="balihaiensis">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DE5791A3FE1467FD" box="[269,439,1988,2013]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. balihaiensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is morphologically very similar to
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF94893BFFA0DC3691A3FAEB67FC" authority="Blake &amp; Kudenov, 1978" authorityName="Blake &amp; Kudenov" authorityYear="1978" box="[876,1352,1988,2013]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="carunculata">
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DC3691A3FBB667FD" box="[876,1045,1988,2013]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S. carunculata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="7B24C9E6893BFFA0DB7991A2FAEB67FC" author="Blake" box="[1059,1352,1988,2013]" pageId="15" pageNumber="393" refString="Blake, J. A. &amp; Kudenov, J. D. (1978) The Spionidae (Polychaeta) from southeastern Australia and adjacent areas with a revision of the genera. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 39, 171 - 280." type="journal article" year="1978">Blake &amp; Kudenov, 1978</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
but
<emphasis id="2DC16805893BFFA0DADD91A3FA3F67FC" box="[1415,1436,1989,2012]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="393">S.</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="1F0AB4178924FFBFDFCD96F1FE3C60F5" blockId="16.[151,1436,151,320]" pageId="16" pageNumber="394">
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF948924FFBFDFCD96F1FEBD6090" box="[151,286,151,176]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="16" pageNumber="394" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="carunculata">
<emphasis id="2DC168058924FFBFDFCD96F1FEBD6090" box="[151,286,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="394">carunculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has only unidentate or bidentate hooks in posterior notopodia whereas
<taxonomicName id="D8B5CF948924FFBFDB0F96FEFB596090" box="[1109,1274,151,176]" class="Polychaeta" family="Spionidae" genus="Scolelepis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spionida" pageId="16" pageNumber="394" phylum="Annelida" rank="species" species="balihaiensis">
<emphasis id="2DC168058924FFBFDB0F96FEFB596090" box="[1109,1274,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="394">S. balihaiensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has tridentate hooks in the notopodia.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="1F0AB4178924FFBFDF9D96B9FEFC6160" blockId="16.[151,1436,151,320]" pageId="16" pageNumber="394">
<emphasis id="2DC168058924FFBFDF9D96B9FE3E60D8" bold="true" box="[199,413,223,248]" pageId="16" pageNumber="394">Habitat / Ecology.</emphasis>
The species was found in sandy mud with filamentous algae in
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water depth.
<emphasis id="2DC168058924FFBFDF9D9762FEC3613D" bold="true" box="[199,352,260,285]" pageId="16" pageNumber="394">Distribution.</emphasis>
The single specimen, an anterior fragment, was found NW of Watson's Bay in the Lizard Island area, Queensland.
</paragraph>
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