Chloeia candida Kinberg, 1857 Indeterminable

Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., 2023, Revision of Chloeia Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida, Amphinomidae), Zootaxa 5238 (1), pp. 1-134 : 38

Chloeia candida Kinberg, 1857 Indeterminable

Chloeia candida Kinberg, 1857: 11, 1910: 33 , Pl. 11, Fig. 2A–G ; Baird 1868: 231; Hartman 1949: 37; Hartman 1959: 131; Yáñez-Rivera & Salazar-Vallejo 2022: 529–530 (indeterm.).

Remarks. The specific derivation is enigmatic; the Latin word candidus (a, um) means white. However, the illustration for the dorsal view of a complete specimen ( Kinberg 1910, Pl. 11, Fig. 2A ) shows a middorsal dark spot, resembling C. viridis Schmarda, 1861 . Hartman (1949: 37) regarded C. candida as a juvenile of C. viridis Schmarda, 1861 . This might imply a need to call for a reversal of priority. However, because the species name was based on a juvenile, and the original description indicated bipinnate branchiae were present from chaetiger 2, it was regarded as indeterminable ( Yáñez-Rivera & Salazar-Vallejo 2022).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Chloeia viridis Schmarda, 1861, non-type specimens (BMNH 1931.6.22.16-18). A. Black form, anterior region, dorsal view. B. Same, chaetigers 10-12, dorsal view (branchiae removed from chaetiger 11). C. Same, posterior region, dorsal view. D. Red form, anterior region, dorsal view. E. Same, chaetigers 12-14, dorsal view (branchiae removed from chaetiger 13). F. Same, posterior region, dorsal view. Scale bars: A, F, 0.9 mm; B, E, 0.7 mm; C, 1 mm; D, 1.2 mm.