Flabelligera buski
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Description
Flabelligera buski (McIntosh, 1869)
Siphonostoma buskii McIntosh 1869:420, Pl. 15, Fig. 13a, Pl. 16, Fig. 4.
Flabelligera buskii: McIntosh 1908:533 (n. comb.); 1915:114-115, Pl. 96, Fig. 11, Pl. 102, Figs. 3-3b, Pl. 104, Figs. 8-8b.
Material examined. None available.
Diagnosis. Tunic transparent. Body brick-red. Neurohooks often in pairs, handle articles long; crests very long, width:length ratio 1:9.
Remarks. Flabelligera buski (McIntosh, 1869), a rather poorly described species, resembles F. bophortica Annenkova-Chlopina, 1924 because both have neurohooks with long crests. They differ because in F. buski neuropodia have two neurohooks per ramus and their crests are very long (width:length ratio 1:9), whereas in F. bophortica most neuropodia have single neurohooks and the crests are shorter (width:length ratio 1:6(7)). On the other hand, according to Newbigin (1900:194), juveniles of F. diplochaitus have two hooks per rami, and since their hooks have typically long crests, F. buski might be more closely allied to this species (Haase 1915:174). This confusion might be resolved with more specimens of F.buski, especially adult ones, which should have fully developed neurochaetal numbers.
The species has been regarded as juvenile F. affinis; even McIntosh repeatedly indicated this resemblance. However, because there are two hooks per rami and that the crests are unusually long, this might be a different species. However, because there is no material available, the final decision about its specific status must be postponed. Until then, the species might be regarded as species inquerenda.
Distribution: Off Loch Maddy, Northwestern Scotland, subtidal.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Flabelligeridae
- Genus
- Flabelligera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Terebellida
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- McIntosh
- Species
- buski
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Flabelligera buski (McIntosh, 1869) sec. Salazar-Vallejo, 2012
References
- McIntosh, W. C. (1869) On the structure of the British nemerteans, and some new British annelids. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 25, 305 - 433.
- McIntosh, W. C. (1908) Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, 30: 1. On the stranding of an adult female Mesoplodon bidens, Sowerby, at St. Andrews; 2. On an abnormal plaice with a precaudal fin-frill on the left side; 3. On Orthogoriscus mola, Bl.; 4. On the British Sphaerodoridae, Chloraemidae, and Chaetopteridae; 5. On the same families dredged in the ' Porcupine' expeditions of 1869 and 1870; 6. On the foregoing families dredged in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, by Dr. Whiteaves; 7. On the same families dredged in Norwegian waters and in Finmark by Canon Norman. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 8, 2, 524 - 545.
- Annenkova-Chlopina, N. (1924) Neues uber die Verbreitung einger Arten der Polychaeten. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences de Russie, 1924, 125 - 128.
- Newbigin, M. I. (1900) On British species of Siphonostoma. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7, 5, 190 - 195.
- Haase, P. (1915) Boreale und arktisch Chloraemiden. Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen der Kommission zur Wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der Deutschen Meere, Neue Folge, Kiel, 17, 169 - 228.