Neanthes Kinberg 1865
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Description
Genus Neanthes Kinberg, 1865
Neanthes Kinberg, 1865: 171–172; Imajima, 1972: 102; Fauchald, 1977: 89; Wu et al., 1985: 143; Khlebovich, 1996: 102; Bakken and Wilson, 2005: 527; Glasby et al., 2011: 363.
Type species: Neanthes vaalii Kinberg, 1865.
Diagnosis
Prostomium with entire anterior margin, one pair of antennae, one pair of palps. Eyes present or absent. Eversible proboscis with conical paragnaths on both maxillary and oral rings; paragnaths occasionally emerging from plate-like basement; smooth barlike paragnaths present or absent on Area IV of maxillary ring. Four pairs of tentacular cirri. Parapodia biramous, except first two pairs; notoaciculae present or absent on chaetigers 1 and 2. Dorsal cirrus lacking basal cirrophore. Notochaetae homogomph spinigers. Upper neurochaetae including homogomph spinigers and heterogomph falcigers; heterogomph spinigers present or absent. Lower neurochaetae including heterogomph falcigers; homogomph and heterogomph spinigers present or absent. Neuropodial heterogomph falcigers occasionally with varying degrees of fusion of chaetal shaft and blade in posterior body.
Remarks
Neanthes is a large genus, considered to be polyphyletic (Bakken and Wilson 2005; Glasby et al. 2011). The generic diagnosis is modified here from Bakken and Wilson (2005) and Glasby et al. (2011) to allow for the presence of notoaciculae on chaetigers 1 and 2 of Neanthes succinea, which is placed back to this genus from Alitta in the present study (see below).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nereididae
- Genus
- Neanthes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Phyllodocida
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- Kinberg
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neanthes Kinberg, 1865 sec. Sato, 2013
References
- Kinberg JGH. 1865. Annulata nova. Nereidum dispositio nova. Ofvers K. Vet-Akad Forh. 22: 167 - 181.
- Imajima M. 1972. Review of the annelid worms of the family Nereidae of Japan, with descriptions of five new species or subspecies. Bull Nat Sci Mus Tokyo 15: 37 - 153.
- Fauchald K. 1977. The Polychaete Worms. Definitions and Keys to the Orders, Families and Genera. Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
- Wu BL, Sun R, Yang D. 1985 (first published in 1981 in Chinese). The Nereidae (polychaetous annelids) of the Chinese coast. Beijing: China Ocean Press and Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
- Khlebovich VV. 1996. [Fauna of Russia and neighbouring countries. Polychaetous annelids. Volume III. Polychaetes of the family Nereididae of the Russian seas and the adjacent waters]. St Petersburg: Nauka Publishing House. (In Russian, English summary).
- Bakken T, Wilson RS. 2005. Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths. Zool Scr. 34: 507 - 547.
- Glasby CJ, Wilson RS, Bakken T. 2011. Redescription of the Indo-Pacific polychaete Neanthes pachychaeta (Fauvel, 1918) n. comb. (Annelida, Phyllodocida, Nereididae) and its synonyms. Zoosystema 33: 361 - 375.