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Sphaerodoropsis Hartman and Fauchald 1971
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Description
Genus Sphaerodoropsis Hartman and Fauchald, 1971
Type species. Sphaerodorum sphaerulifer Moore, 1909.
Diagnosis. Body generally short and ovoid, some forms slender. Four or more longitudinal rows of macrotubercles, in one or several transversal rows per segment. Macrotubercles sessile and smooth, without terminal papillae. Microtubercles absent. Papillae over body surface and parapodia. Head appendages short, spherical or digitiform. Parapodia with compound chaetae; hooks absent.
Notes
Published as part of Capa, Maria & Bakken, Torkild, 2015, Revision of the Australian Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) including the description of four new species, pp. 227-267 in Zootaxa 4000 (2) on page 244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/234762
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sphaerodoridae
- Genus
- Sphaerodoropsis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Phyllodocida
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- Hartman and Fauchald
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphaerodoropsis and, 1971 sec. Capa & Bakken, 2015
References
- Hartman, O. & Fauchald, K. (1971) Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology, 6, 1 - 327.
- Moore, J. P. (1909) The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U. S. S: " Albatross " off the coast of southern California in 1904. I. Syllidae, Sphaerodoridae, Hesionidae and Phyllodocidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 61, 321 - 351.