Harmothoe aspera, (Hansen, 1879)
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10541207 |
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Harmothoe aspera |
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Harmotho e aspera (Hansen, 1879) View in CoL
(fi gure 13A -D)
Polynoe aspera Hansen, 1879: 1 View in CoL , pl.1.
Harmothoe aspera View in CoL : Hartmann-SchroÈder, 1996: 44 [part; not H. multisetosa (Moore, 1902) View in CoL according to Pettibone, 1953].
Type material. Polynoe aspera , SYNTYPES: 2spms., Nordhavs expedition 1876, St.
, MZB 2000.
Additional material. 1 spm., 6 October 1993, Banyuls, coralligeÁne, leg. D. Fiege, SMF 4563 About SMF . 1 spm., St. 352, Monaco, det. Fauvel (cf. 1913) as H. reticulata, IEA 25 (slide) .
Diagnosis. Anterior pair of eyes dorsolaterally on widest part of prostomium. Elytra: margin with fringing papillae; surface covered by thorn-shaped pointed microtubercles and few scattered papillae, with a row of large pyramid-shaped macrotubercles near posterior margin. Dorsal and ventral tentacular cirri and dorsal cirri papillate, tapering.
Description. Prostomium bilobed, with distinct cephalic peaks; median antenna with large ceratophore in anterior notch, style papillate, tapering; lateral antennae with small ceratophores inserted ventrally and with short, papillate, tapering styles; palps papillate, about as long as median antenna and tentacular cirri; anterior pair
eyes dorsolaterally on widest part of prostomium, posterior pair dorsally near hind margin. Tentaculophores inserted laterally to prostomium, each with two
1916 IG. 13. Harmothoe aspera (6 October 1993, Banyuls, SMF 4563 About SMF ). (A) Anterior end; right palp and styles of median antenna and of tentacular cirri missing; dorsal view; (B) right middle elytron; (C) detail of posterior margin of same; (D) style of dorsal cirrus (scales 5 1 mm for A, B; 250 M m for C; 500 M m for D) .
chaetae and a pair of papillate, tapering dorsal and ventral tentacular cirri. Second segment with fi rst pair of elytra, biramous parapodia, and long ventral buccal cirri, similar to tentacular cirri (fi gure 13A).
Fifteen pairs of elytra; elytral margin with fringing papillae; surface covered
thorn-shaped pointed microtubercles and few scattered papillae, with a row of large pyramid-shaped macrotubercles near posterior margin (fi gure 13B, C). Styles
dorsal cirri papillate, tapering, pigmented basally and extending beyond neurochaetae (fi gure 13D); styles of ventral cirri papillate, tapering, shorter than neuropodia.
Parapodia biramous, both rami with single aciculum penetrating epidermis; notopodia with short, rounded presetal and longer, pointed postsetal acicular lobe, neuropodia with subconical presetal acicular lobe with digitiform supra-acicular process and shorter rounded postsetal lobe. Notochaetae stouter than neurochaetae, with distinct rows of spines and blunt tips; neurochaetae with distinct rows of spines only in distal part, upper bidentate with small secondary tooth distally, tooth often reduced or abraded, lower unidentate.
Remarks. Harmothoe aspera might be confused with H. bellani sp. nov. and. lagiscoides serrata Day, 1963. These three species share elytra with thorn-shaped pointed microtubercles, but H. bellani has no macrotubercles (fi gure 16B, C), while
H. lagiscoides serrata macrotubercles are slender and thorn-shaped (fi gure 14B,), in contrast to the large pyramid-shaped macrotubercles in H. aspera gure 13B, C).
Measurements. Specimen fi gured herein: L 10 mm, W 2 mm for 36 chaetigers.
Distribution. Mediterranean Sea: Western Mediterranean; specimens examined
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Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense |
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Harmothoe aspera
Barnich, R. & Fiege, D. 2000 |
Polynoe aspera
Hansen 1879: 1 |