Bathyvermilia cf. kupriyanovae Bastida-Zavala, 2008

Gunton, Laetitia M., Kupriyanova, Elena K., Alvestad, Tom, Avery, Lynda, Blake, James A., Biriukova, Olga, Boeggemann, Markus, Borisova, Polina, Budaeva, Nataliya, Burghardt, Ingo, Capa, Maria, Georgieva, Magdalena N., Glasby, Christopher J., Hsueh, Pan-Wen, Hutchings, Pat, Jimi, Naoto, Kongsrud, Jon A., Langeneck, Joachim, Meissner, Karin, Murray, Anna, Nikolic, Mark, Paxton, Hannelore, Ramos, Dino, Schulze, Anja, Sobczyk, Robert, Watson, Charlotte, Wiklund, Helena, Wilson, Robin S., Zhadan, Anna & Zhang, Jinghuai, 2021, Annelids of the eastern Australian abyss collected by the 2017 RV ' Investigator' voyage, ZooKeys 1020, pp. 1-198 : 1

Bathyvermilia cf. kupriyanovae Bastida-Zavala, 2008 Fig. 28B

Diagnosis.

Large white tubes with numerous wide peristomes.

Remarks.

Only empty tubes were collected. Bathyvermilia kupriyanovae Bastida-Zavala, 2008 and B. zibrowiusi Kupriyanova, 1993b both have large tubes with wide flaring peristomes. The other characters separating these two species are structures of thoracic membranes and the opercula. The tubes collected from the Australian eastern abyss are tentatively attributed here to B. kupriyanovae as they appear to have wider peristomes than those of B. zibrowiusi .

Records.

4 tubes. Suppl. material 1: ops. 11, 56 (AM).

Figures

Figure 28. Serpulidae A Bathyvermilia challengeri, tube only (AM W. 49722) B Bathyvermilia cf. kupriyanovae, tube only (AM W. 49707) C Bathyvermilia sp. nov. 3, specimen in white shiny tube (AM W. 49494) D Hyalopomatus dieteri, tube only (AM W. 49689) E Bathyvermilia sp. nov. 4, specimen in tube with high keel (AM W. 49448) F Hyalopomatus sp. nov. 2, specimen removed from the tube (AM W. 49727) G Hyalopomatus sp. nov. 3, specimen removed from the tube (AM W. 49494) H Protis sp. 3, specimen partly removed tube, with egg sacks (AM W. 49682) I Spirodiscus sp. nov., specimens in tubes (AM W. 49511). Scale bars: 2 mm (A, C); 10 mm (B, E); 1 mm (D, F, H); 0.5 mm (G); 2 mm (I).