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Macellicephala McIntosh 1885

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Macellicephala McIntosh, 1885 amended by Pettibone, 1976

Type species: Polynoe (Macellicephala) mirabilis McIntosh, 1885, by monotypy. Gender: feminine. = Macellicephala mirabilis McIntosh, 1885.

Diagnosis. Body with 18 segments. Elytra and elytrophores 9 pairs, on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 17. Prostomium bilobed, with or without paired frontal filaments; with median antenna and smooth palps. Pharynx with 9 pairs of papillae and 2 pairs of jaws, with smooth margins. Segment 1 [(= tentacular segment, as used by Pettibone (1976)]) without chaetae. Segment 2 with buccal (ventral) cirri longer than following ventral cirri, attached to basal parts of parapodia lateral to mouth. Parapodia biramous, with shorter notopodia and long neuropodia, both rami with elongate acicular processes. Nephridial papillae present from fifth segment, usually largest on segments 10, 11 and 12. Pygidium medial to greatly reduced parapodia of segment 18.

Notes

Published as part of Neal, Lenka, Brasier, Madeleine J. & Wiklund, Helena, 2018, Six new species of Macellicephala (Annelida: Polynoidae) from the Southern Ocean and south Atlantic with re-description of type species, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 4455 (1) on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1456911

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BDA104A323695BFF64F869FB7825A7

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/1456911 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF84D97CA326695DFFF3FFADFFAB244E (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/70E92EDF-E11B-40A7-9573-0AC9F10E623E (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BDA104A323695BFF64F869FB7825A7 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/148691064 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/29118/taxon/03BDA104A323695BFF64F869FB7825A7.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Polynoidae
Genus
Macellicephala
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Phyllodocida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
McIntosh
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Macellicephala McIntosh, 1885 sec. Neal, Brasier & Wiklund, 2018

References

  • McIntosh, W. C. (1885) Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873 - 76. Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of HMS Challenger 1873 - 76, 12, 1 - 554.
  • Pettibone, M. H. (1976) Revision of the Genus Macellicephala McIntosh and the Subfamily Macellicephalinae Hartmann- Schroder (Polychaeta, Polynoidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 229, 1 - 71.