Spinosphaera carrerai , Londono-Mesa 2003
Creators
Description
Spinosphaera carrerai, Londoño-Mesa, 2003:750–751, Fig. 2.— Londoño-Mesa & Carrera-Parra, 2005:31–32.
Type material: Holotype ECOSUR 042 Off Herradura Point, Mexican Caribbean (18°32'23"N 87°44'32"W), 28.IX.1996.
Diagnosis: Eyespots in two lateral groups of 2–3 brown eyespots; eleven short ventral shields from segment 1. Nephridial papillae not seen. Nineteen pairs of notopodia; notochaetae of two types, bilimbate capillaries equal-sized in segments 4–5, and of two lengths on segments 5–9; spinosphaera chaetae of two lengths, in segments 10–19. Pairs of neuropodia with uncini avicular in single rows on segments 5–10, in double rows on segments 11–75, in single rows on segments 76–82. Uncini MF:3:3–4:6–7. Pygidium with 5 papillae.
Staining pattern: Only ventral shields stain deeply. The remaining structures remain pale.
Discussion: A complete description, including figures, is found in Londoño-Mesa (2003).
Type locality and distribution: Southern Mexican Caribbean.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ECOSUR
- Event date
- 1996-09-28
- Family
- Terebellidae
- Genus
- Spinosphaera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- ECOSUR 042
- Order
- Terebellida
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- , Londono-Mesa
- Species
- carrerai
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1996-09-28
- Taxonomic concept label
- Spinosphaera carrerai , 2003 sec. Londoño-Mesa, 2009
References
- Londono-Mesa, M. H. (2003) Revision of Spinosphaera and establishment of the new genus Hutchingsiella (Polychaeta: Terebellidae: Terebellinae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 83, 747 - 759.
- Londono-Mesa, M. H. & Carrera-Parra, L. F. (2005) Terebellidae (Polychaeta) from the Mexican Caribbean with description of four new species. Zootaxa, 1057, 1 - 44.