Nothria sp. nov. 2

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

Nothria sp. nov. 2 Fig. 16E

Diagnosis.

Eyes absent; peristomial cirri present. Chaetiger 1 greatly enlarged; with auricular prechaetal lobes. Simple, short branchiae from chaetiger 10-12. Uni- to bidentate simple and pseudocompound hooks on chaetiger 1 and 2. Bidentate compound hooks on chaetiger 3. ‘Scoop-shaped’ pectinate and limbate chaetae from chaetiger 2. Subacicular hooks from chaetiger 11-14. Flattened tube, transparent lining, covered with pieces of shells and foraminifera.

Remarks.

This species was also collected from the GAB reported as Nothria sp. ( MacIntosh et al. 2018: additional file 2).

Records.

2 specimens. Suppl. material 1: ops. 56, 90 (AM).

Figures

Figure 16. Onuphidae A Anchinothria cf. pycnobranchiata (op. 56) B Nothria cf. paxtonae (op. 56) C Nothria sp. nov. 1 (AM W. 49940) D Nothria sp. nov. 1, tube (AM W. 49940) E Nothria sp. nov. 2 (AM W. 49933) F Nothria sp. nov. 3 (AM W. 49934) G Paradiopatra sp. nov. 2 (AM W. 49950). Scale bars: 5 mm (A); 1 mm (B-E, G); 4 mm (F).