Boguea, Gunton & Kupriyanova & Alvestad & Avery & Blake & Biriukova & Böggemann & Borisova & Budaeva & Burghardt & Capa & Georgieva & Glasby & Hsueh & Hutchings & Jimi & Kongsrud & Langeneck & Meißner & Murray & Nikolic & Paxton & Ramos & Schulze & Sobczyk & Watson & Wiklund & Wilson & Zhadan & Zhang, 2021

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

Boguea sp. nov. Fig. 14A

Diagnosis.

Complete specimens with ~ 30 chaetigers, <20 mm long and 0.2 mm wide. Head rounded without a cephalic plate. Cephalic keel well developed. Nuchal slits curved, parallel on each side of the cephalic keel. Neuropodia with avicular uncini present from chaetiger 5. Avicular uncini in single row in chaetiger 5-8, in double rows from chaetiger 9 and onwards. Pygidium simple, without papillae. Anus terminal. Tube cylindrical, straight, thick and solid, consisting of a thin inner organic layer incrusted with a thick layer of densely packed mud. Ventral glandular pads on anterior part of chaetigers 4-6 with reddish-brown pigmentation.

Remarks.

At present, only two species of Boguea have been described, B. enigmatica Hartman, 1945 from North Carolina, USA and B. panwaensis Meyer & Westheide, 1997 from Phuket, Thailand. This is the first record of the genus in the deep sea.

Records.

10 specimens. Suppl. material 1: ops. 44, 56 (AM).

Figures

Figure 14. Maldanidae A Boguea sp. nov. B Chirimia sp. nov. C Lumbriclymene sp. D Maldane sp. E Maldanella sp. 1 F Maldanella sp. 2 G Notoproctus sp. nov. 1 H Notoproctus cf. scutiferus I Notoproctus oculatus antarcticus J Notoproctus sp. nov. 2. Scale bars: 5 mm (A, D, F); 1 mm (B, C, G-J).