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Ancistrosyllis McIntosh 1878

  • 1. Marine Ecosearch Management Co., Ltd., 4 / 31 Moo 1, Namnoi, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110, Thailand. & Marine Science Learning Center, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110 Thailand. sakanan 2004 @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3473 - 1680
  • 2. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, 26 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. harlan. dean @ umb. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8269 - 0671
  • 3. Marine Science Learning Center, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110 Thailand. sakanan 2004 @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3473 - 1680

Description

Key to the species of Ancistrosyllis McIntosh, 1878

1A Prostomium with only a median antenna with two pairs of eyespots and one pair of small, subulate tentacular cirri........................................................................... A. quellina Wesenberg-Lund, 1962 ; Chile, SE Pacific

1B Prostomium with both a median antenna and two lateral antennae............................................ 2

1C Prostomium with two lateral antennae, median antenna absent............................................... 9

2A(1B) Eyespots present, one pair............................................................................ 3

2B(1B) Eyespots absent.................................................................................... 4

3A(2A) Two pairs of short, subequal tentacular cirri; dorsal cirri from chaetiger 1 and ventral cirri from chaetiger 3; first notopodial hooks from chaetiger 3...................................................... A. hartmanae Pettibone, 1966 ; Chesapeake Bay to Gulf of Mexico, Western Atlantic

3B(2A) Two pairs of tentacular cirri, both dorsal and ventral cirri from chaetiger 1; first notopodial hooks from chaetiger 5............................................................................... A. cingulata Korschelt, 1893 ; Adriatic Sea

4A(2B) First notopodial hooks from chaetiger 3................................................................. 5

4B(2B) First notopodial hooks from other chaetigers............................................................. 6

5A(4A) Dorsal and ventral cirri from chaetiger 1; neurochaetae 2 types, bifid tips.................... A. nakkaritae sp. nov. ; Gulf of Thailand, Western Pacific

5B(4A) Dorsal cirri from chaetiger 1; ventral cirri from chaetiger 2................... A. fioronii Fiege & Böggemann, 1999 ; North Sea, Atlantic Ocean

5C(4A) Dorsal cirri from chaetiger 1; ventral cirri from chaetiger 3; neurochaetae 2 types unidentate tips.................................................................................................. A. kornkanokae sp. nov. ; Gulf of Thailand, Western Pacific

6A(4B) Dorsal and ventral cirri from chaetiger 1................................................................ 7

6B(4B) Dorsal cirri from chaetiger 1; ventral cirri from chaetiger 3, first notopodial hooks from chaetiger 6.............................................................................................. A. jonesi Pettibone, 1966 ; Maryland, Atlantic Ocean

7A(6A) First notopodial hooks from chaetiger 4–6............................................................... 8

7B(6A) First notopodial hooks from chaetiger 13......................................... A. breviceps Hartman, 1963; Southern California, Pacific Ocean

8A(7A) First dorsal cirri twice as long as following ones............................... A. groenlandica McIntosh, 1878 ; off Greenland, Arctic Ocean

8B(7A) First notopodial hooks from chaetiger 6....................................... A. commensalis Gardiner, 1976 ; North Carolina, Atlantic Ocean

9A(1C) Eyespots present.................................................................................. 10

9B(1C) Eyespots absent................................................................................... 11

10A(9A) First notopodial hooks from chaetiger 3............................................. A. papillosa Jones, 1961 ; USA coast of Gulf of Mexico

10B(9A) First notopodial hooks from chaetiger 7................................................ A. falcata Day, 1957 ; South Africa

11A(9B) Ventral cirri from chaetiger 2........................................................................ 12

11B(9B) Ventral cirri from chaetiger 3; notopodial hooks from chaetigers 4–7..................... A. hamata Hartman, 1960 ; Southern California, Pacific Ocean

12A(11A) Notopodial hooks from chaetiger 6........................................... A. carolinensis Gardiner, 1976 ; North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico, Western Atlantic

12B(11A) Notopodial hooks from chaetiger 7........................................ A. matlaensis Mandal & Deb, 2018 ; Estuarine System, India, Indian Ocean

Notes

Published as part of Plathong, Jintana, Dean, Harlan K. & Plathong, Sakanan, 2021, Four new species of Pilargidae (Annelida: Pilarginae) from the Gulf of Thailand, pp. 537-562 in Zootaxa 5071 (4) on page 539, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5071.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5726460

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pilargidae
Genus
Ancistrosyllis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Phyllodocida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
McIntosh
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Ancistrosyllis McIntosh, 1878 sec. Plathong, Dean & Plathong, 2021

References

  • McIntosh, W. C. (1878) On the Annelida obtained during the Cruise of H. M. S. ' Valorous' to Davis Strait in 1875. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 2 (Zoology), 1 (7), 499 - 511. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1878. tb 00663 b. x
  • Wesenberg-Lund, E. (1962) Polychaeta Errantia. In: Reports of the Lund University Chile Expedition 1948 - 49. 43. Universitets Arsskrift, Avd. 2, 57 (12), 1 - 137.
  • Pettibone, M. H. (1966) Revision of the Pilargidae (Annelida: Polychaeta), including descriptions of new species, and redescription of the pelagic Podarmus ploa Chamberlain (Polynoidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 118 (3525), 155 - 207. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.118 - 3525.155.
  • Korschelt, E. (1893) Uber Ophryotrocha puerilis Clap. - Metschn. und die polytrochen Larven eines anderen Anneliden (Harpochaeta cingulata, nov. gen, nov. spec.). Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 57, 224 - 289.
  • Fiege, D. & Boggemann, M. (1999) Ancistrosyllis fioronii, a new species of Pilargidae from the North Sea, with a key and synoptic table of characters for all species of the genus Ancistrosyllis McIntosh, 1879 (Annelida, Polychaeta, Pilargidae). Senckenbergiana biologica, 78 (1 / 2), 135 - 140.
  • Hartman, O. (1963) Submarine canyons of southern California. Part III. Systematics: Polychaetes. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 27 (3), 1 - 93.
  • Gardiner, S. L. (1976) Errant polychaete annelids from North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 91 (3), 77 - 220.
  • Jones, M. L. (1961) Two new polychaetes of the families Pilargidae and Capitellidae from the Gulf of Mexico. American Museum Novitates, 2049, 1 - 18.
  • Day, J. H. (1957) The Polychaete Fauna of South Africa, Part 4, New species and records from Natal and Mocambique. Annals of the Natal Museum, 14 (1), 59 - 129.
  • Hartman, O. (1960) Systematic account of some marine invertebrate animals from the deep basins off southern California. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 22 (2), 69 - 216.
  • Mandal, S. & Deb, S. (2018) Ancistrosyllis matlaensis n. sp. (Polychaeta: Pilargidae) from the Sundarban Estuarine System, India. Zootaxa, 4531 (3), 419 - 429. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4531.3.6