Spiophanes cf. viriosus Meissner & Hutchings, 2003

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

Spiophanes cf. viriosus Meissner & Hutchings, 2003

Remarks.

The specimen is only a middle fragment in poor condition, without prostomium and posterior end. Due to this we abstain from a more detailed description. However, based on pigment observable in parapodia of the middle body region, chaetal spreaders which are not of the ‘0+1’ type but possibly of the '2+3 type’ present in chaetigers 5-7, and glandular openings in chaetiger 8 being absent the fragment might be tentatively referred to Spiophanes viriosus Meißner & Hutchings, 2003.

Spiophanes viriosus was originally described from coastal waters in Queensland, Australia.

Records.

1 specimen, middle fragment. Suppl. material 1: op. 11 (AM).