Pseudopotamilla
Description
Key to Pseudopotamilla species described here
1. Collar with high, well-developed, rounded lappets dorsally (Fig. 1 D); dorsal margins V-shaped (Figs 1 D, 2A); and peristomium well exposed dorsally (Fig. 1 D, 1A) and laterally above collar margins (Fig. 2 C)...... P. reniformis (Bruguiére, 1789)
- Collar with low, rounded lappets dorsally (Figs 4 C, 5C); dorsal collar margin convex (Figs 4 C, 5C); and peristomium slightly exposed laterally (Fig. 4 B) or not exposed above collar margins (Fig. 5 B–C)..................................... 2
2. Lateral margins of collar V-shaped (Fig. 4 B); handle of each companion chaeta twice length of handle of adjacent uncinus (Fig. 4 K)........................................................................ P. aspersa (Krøyer, 1856)
- Lateral margins of collar even (in line with the horizontal body axis) (Fig. 5 B); handle of companion chaeta slightly longer than handle of adjacent uncinus (Fig. 5 H)......................................... P. saxicava (Quatrefages, 1866).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sabellidae
- Genus
- Pseudopotamilla
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Sabellida
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Bruguiere, L. G. (1789) Encyclopedie Methodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Vol. I. Part 1. Chez Panckoucke, imprimeurlibraire, hotel de Thou, rue des Poitevins, MDCCXCII-MDCCCXXXII, Paris, 344 pp.
- Kroyer, H. (1856) Bidrag til Kundskab af Sabellerne. Oversigt over det Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskabs forhandlinger, 1856, 1 - 36.
- Quatrefages, M. A. de (1866) Histoire naturelle des Anneles marins et d'eau douce. Annelides et Gephriiens. Vol. 2. Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 458 pp. [pp. 337 - 794]