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Bathymacella Pettibone 1976

Description

BATHYMACELLA PETTIBONE, 1976

Type species: Bathymacella uschakovi (Averincev, 1972).

The genus is monotypic. The type species was originally described and placed close to Macellicephala, Macellicephaloides and Macelloides as having no lateral antennae (Averincev, 1972; Hartmann-Schröder, 1974). Later, Pettibone (1976) revised the genus considering that the lateral prostomial horns described by Averincev (1972) were, in fact, lateral antennae. There are some misunderstandings and confusions between frontal filaments, frontal horns, cephalic peaks or lateral antennae in descriptions of polynoids. Further investigation of polynoid anatomy is required to gain a better understanding of these structures and their differences. In the present study, this species has been coded as having a median antenna and no lateral antennae.

Notes

Published as part of Bonifácio, Paulo & Menot, Lénaïck, 2019, New genera and species from the Equatorial Pacific provide phylogenetic insights into deep-sea Polynoidae (Annelida), pp. 555-635 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185 on page 625

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Polynoidae
Genus
Bathymacella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Phyllodocida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Pettibone
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Bathymacella Pettibone, 1976 sec. Bonifácio & Menot, 2019

References

  • Pettibone MH. 1976. Revision of the genus Macellicephala McIntosh and the subfamily Macellicephalinae Hartmann- Schroder (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
  • Averincev VG. 1972. Benthic polychaete worms of the errantia from the Antarctic and Subantarctic in the material of the soviet Antarctic Expeditions. Zoologicheskii Institut Akademiia Nauk SSSR 11: 88 - 293.
  • Hartmann-Schroder G. 1974. Die Unterfamilie Macellicephalinae Hartmann-Schroder, 1971 (Polynoidae, Polychaeta). Mit Beschreibung einer neuen art, Macellicephala jameensis n. sp., aus einem Hohlengewasser von Lanzarote (Kanarische Inseln). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 71: 75 - 85.