Questa caudicirra Hartman 1966
Creators
- 1. Laboratorio de Bentos, Departamento de Biología Animal, Edafología y Geología, Sección de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La Laguna, 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
- 2. Molecular Ecology Group, Water Research Institute, National Research Council of Italy, Largo Tonolli 50, 28922 Verbania, Italy. alejandro. martinezgarcia @ cnr. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0073 - 3688
Description
Questa caudicirra Hartman, 1966
Figure 5
Questa caudicirra Hartman, 1966. Fig 4: 197–198. Delgado & Núñez,1993 –1994. Figs 1–5: 272–277; Riera et al. 2016: 212 (Table 5).
Material examined. Canary Islands, Tenerife, Playa San Juan, DBAULL-M221, Los Cerebros, submarine cave, 28º10.34’N 16º48.41’W, muddy sandy substrate, 15 m, 21-02-2003, 2 specimens; DBULL-M222, Los Cerebros, 28º10.34’N 16º48.41’W, muddy sandy substrate, 15 m, 21-10-2003, 12 specimens. Azores, S „o Miguel. - 13 AZSM, Porto da Caloura, TFMCBM-AN/257, 37º42.76’N 25º29.71’W, fine volcanic sand substrate, 17 m, 22-07-01, 1 specimen; DBAULL-16 AZSM, Os Mosteiros, 37º53.57’N 25º49.01’W, gravel patch in rocky cervices, 3 m., 24-07- 01, 2 specimens; 20 AZSM, Ilhéu de Vila Franca, TFMCBM-AN/258, 37º42.42’N 25º26.54’W, fine sand substrate with mud, 15 m, 26-07-2001, 2 specimens. Coll. J. Núñez.
Diagnosis. Threadlike body, 5–6.5 mm long and 0.2–0.3 mm wide measured in the third chaetiger, with about 48–56 chaetigers. Prostomium conical, without eyes or appendages (Fig. 5A). Peristomium biannulate (Fig. 5A); parapodia biramous with 2–7 capillary chaetae on each rami and at least 1 bidentate hook (Fig. 5C). Up to 15 pairs of branchiae posteriorly, consisting of simple cirriform appendages increasing in length towards the pygidium (Fig. 5B). Pygidium with two pairs of short anal cirrus (dorsal and ventral). Segments modified at sexual maturity all have at least one type of chaetae (capillaries, hooks, or both), including chaetigers 12–14. Two oocytes recorded in chaetigers 10–13 of mature females (Fig. 5A), and in anterior chaetigers 6–11 masses of glandular tissue (Fig. 5A); males have chaetae reduced in size in chaetigers 12–13, with a slit-like dorsal fold.
Distribution. West coast of North America (California, British Columbia), Gulf of Mexico (west coast of Florida) (Giere & Erséus, 1998). Mediterranean Sea (Somaschini & Gravina, 1993) and Macaronesian region (Azores and Canary Islands). The species is recorded for the first time from the Azores.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AZSM , DBULL-M
- Family
- Orbiniidae
- Genus
- Questa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- DBULL-M222
- Order
- Orbiniida
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- Hartman
- Species
- caudicirra
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Questa caudicirra Hartman, 1966 sec. Núñez & Martínez, 2023
References
- Hartman, O. (1966) Quantitative survey of the benthos of San Pedro Basin, Southern California. Part II. Final results and conclusions. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition, 19, 187 - 456.
- Delgado, J. D. & Nunez, J. (1993 - 1994) Presencia de Questa caudicirra Hartman, 1966 (Polychaeta, Questidae) en las Islas Canarias. Miscellania Zoologica, 17, 272 - 277.
- Riera, R., Monterroso, O., Nunez, J. & Martinez, A. (2016) Distribution of meiofaunal abundances in a marine cave complex with secondary openings and freshwater filtrations. Marine Biodiversity, 48, 203 - 215. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 016 - 0586 - y
- Giere, O. & Erseus, C. (1998) A systematic account of the Questidae (Annelida, Polychaeta), with description of new taxa. Zoologica Scripta, 27 (4), 345 - 360. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1998. tb 00466. x
- Somaschini, A. & Gravina, M. F. (1993) First report of Questidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) in the Mediterranean Sea: Questa caudicirra Hartman. Vie Milieu, 43 (1), 59 - 61.