Leiochrides cf. pallidor (Chamberlin, 1918)

Garcia-Garza, Maria Elena & Leon-Gonzalez, Jesus Angel De, 2011, Review of the Capitellidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific region, with notes on selected species, ZooKeys 151, pp. 17-52 : 23

Leiochrides cf. pallidor (Chamberlin, 1918)

Notomastus pallidor Chamberlin, 1918: 179; Berkeley and Berkeley 1942: 198.

Leiochrides pallidor Hartman, 1947: 429; 1969: 382.

Leiochrides cf. pallidor Dean, 2001: 75 fig. 13; 2004: 136.

Type locality.

Monterey Bay, California.

Type material.

Not seen.

Records.

California ( Chamberlin 1918, Hartman 1947, 1969), Costa Rica, Gulf of Nicoya ( Dean 2001, 2004).

Remarks.

Leiochrides pallidor it is a poorly known species and, until now, all descriptions have been incomplete. Chamberlin in his description only mentions that the species has 12 thoracic chaetigers, others features are not useful to characterize that species. Dean (2001) includes Leiochrides cf. pallidor for Costa Rica, which was characterized by the presence of 13 thoracic segments, the first one achaetous, and 12 complete chaetigers with capillary chaetae; however the illustration of the anterior end shows only 11 complete chaetigers with capillary chaetae, however, although the figure is wrong, the identification is correct (Dean pers. comm.)