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Ammotrypanella McIntosh 1879

Description

Genus Ammotrypanella McIntosh, 1879

Type species: A. arctica McIntosh, 1879 Generic rediagnosis. Body long and thin. Ventral groove along whole length of body. Prostomium bluntly rounded to conical with small palpode, peristomium indistinct. Eyes absent.

Anterior parapodia button shaped with long, bent chaetae arranged in tufts. Parapodia embedded into lateral groove in median region, becoming more distinct in posterior region. Parapodia with branchiae in third quarter of body. Posterior chaetae longer than median ones, stiff and straight. All chaetae simple.

Branchiae flat, wide at base, tapering to top.

Posterior end of body laterally flattened with chaetigers reduced in length. Pygidium with or without anal tube. Anal tube, if present, with or without ventral cirrus.

Notes

Published as part of Schüller, Myriam, 2008, New polychaete species collected during the expeditions ANDEEP I, II, and III to the deep Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean in the austral summers 2002 and 2005 — Ampharetidae, Opheliidae, and Scalibregmatidae, pp. 51-68 in Zootaxa 1705 on pages 54-55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.180892

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Opheliidae
Genus
Ammotrypanella
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
McIntosh
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Ammotrypanella McIntosh, 1879 sec. Schüller, 2008

References

  • McIntosh, W. C. (1879) An account of the petrological, botanical and zoological collections made in Kerguelen's Land and Rondriguez during the transit of Venus expeditions carried out by order of her Majesty's government in the years 1874 - 75. Marine Annelida. Royal Society of London, Transactions on Philosophy, vol. 168, 258 - 263.