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Leodice metatropos Zanol & Hutchings & Fauchald 2020, n. comb.
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Description
Leodice metatropos (Hanley, 1986) n. comb.
Eunice metatropos Hanley, 1986: 215–221, figs. 1–3.
Material examined. Western Australia. N.W. Shelf, 80 m, trawled specimens, coll. Observer crew on Chick Fa No. l, id. Russell Hanley, 1986, AM W.201437 (1, PARATYPE), AM W.201438 (1, PARATYPE), USNM # 101342 (1, PARATYPE), USNM # 101343 (1, PARATYPE).
Remarks. This species has paired MxIII, a condition present in few species of eunicids (see Fauchald, 1992 for a discussion). All four paratypes examined are in very poor condition
Type locality. Western Australia.
Notes
Published as part of Zanol, Joana, Hutchings, Pat A. & Fauchald, Kristian, 2020, Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion, pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 4748 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3697522
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AM , USNM
- Scientific name authorship
- Zanol & Hutchings & Fauchald
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Eunicida
- Family
- Eunicidae
- Genus
- Leodice
- Species
- metatropos
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leodice metatropos (Hanley, 1986) sec. Zanol, Hutchings & Fauchald, 2020
References
- Hanley, J. R. (1986) Co-operative effort in a new species of tube dwelling worm, Eunice metatropos (Polychaeta: Eunicidae). The Beagle, Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, 3, 215 - 221.
- Fauchald, K. (1992) A review of the genus Eunice (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 523, 1 - 422. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.523