Laonice (Laonice) Malmgren, 1867

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

Laonice (Laonice) Malmgren, 1867

Laonice (Laonice) : Sikorski, Gunton & Pavlova 2017: 962.

Type species: Nerine cirrata M. Sars, 1851 . By monotypy.

Diagnosis. Prostomium fused with fronto-lateral margin of peristomium. Caruncle long, extending beyond half of branchiate chaetigers. Capillary chaetae on anterior chaetigers arranged in two vertical rows. Hooded hooks with main fang surmounted by paired apical teeth. Hooks absent in notopodia.

Remarks. The nominotypical subgenus Laonice (Laonice) was recognized by Sikorski et al. (2017) based on a morphological analysis of Laonice species. Molecular analysis provided in the present study ( Fig. 1 ) supports the monophyly of this group.

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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).