Phascolion (Montuga) lutense Selenka, 1885

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

Phascolion (Montuga) lutense Selenka, 1885 Fig. 35E

Diagnosis.

Trunk smooth, except for densely packed papillae at the anterior end. No holdfast papillae. Trunk with characteristic grey anterior ‘cap’. Inhabiting soft clay tubes instead of hard shells.

Remarks.

This is the first report of this species from Australian waters.

Records.

4 specimens. Suppl. material 1: ops. 6, 67 (AM).

Figures

Figure 35. Sipuncula A Sipunculus sp. (AM W. 49645), lateral view B Golfingia muricaudata (AM W. 49656), lateral view C Golfingia muricaudata (AM W. 49657) D Sipuncula gen. sp. (op. 35), lateral view E Phascolion lutense (AM W. 49601), top: specimen removed from sediment tube; bottom: specimen partially removed from tube; right: sediment tube. Scale bars: 5 mm.