Laonice bahusiensis, Soderstrom, 1920

Sikorski, Andrey V., Radashevsky, Vasily I., Castelli, Alberto, Pavlova, Lyudmila V., Nygren, Arne, Malyar, Vasily V., Borisova, Polina B., Mikac, Barbara, Rousou, Maria, Martin, Daniel, Gil, João, Pacciardi, Lorenzo & Langeneck, Joachim, 2021, Revision of the Laonice bahusiensis complex (Annelida: Spionidae) with a description of three new species, Zootaxa 4996 (2), pp. 253-283 : 259-260

Laonice bahusiensis complex of species

Diagnosis. Notopodial postchaetal lamellae on several postbranchiate chaetigers interconnected by dorsal transverse crests.

Remarks. The species of this complex were not considered by Bogantes et al. (2018) or Guggolz et al. (2019). Our molecular analysis supports the monophyly of the clade comprising the specimens of Laonice (Laonice) with dorsal transverse crests on the postbranchiate chaetigers ( Fig. 1 ), which is herein referred to as the L. bahusiensis complex of species for the first time.

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FIGURE 1. Majority rule consensus tree of the Bayesian inference analysis of COI (483 bp) sequences obtained in the present study. Posterior probabilities are shown on the branches. The terminals are labeled with GenBank registration numbers and collecting locations (see Tables 1, S1–S4, for complete information).