Rhopalomenia glandulosa, Eisenhut & Salvini-Plawen, 2006

Eisenhut, Angelika & Salvini-Plawen, Luitfried V., 2006, Rhopalomenia glandulosa spec. nov., and the restoration of Entonomenia Leloup (Mollusca: Solenogastres), Zootaxa 1184, pp. 43-55 : 45

Rhopalomenia glandulosa spec. nov.

Diagnosis: Body up to 15 mm x 1 mm; cuticle moderately thick without bulge or keel formations; with epidermal papillae. Pedal groove with one fold, not entering the pallial cavity; pallial cavity with suprapallial glands. Foregut subdivided by the radula sheath (without a radula) into pharynx and a very long esophagus; with subepithelial pharyngeal glands; two pairs of foregut glandular organs (type A of ducts with subepithelial/ extraepithelial and type C with epithelial/intraepithelial glandular cells), with common outleading duct at each side into the radula sheath and common muscular coat including radula sheath. One pair of atrial nerves with ganglionic bulges from cerebral ganglion; suprarectal commissure long. Pericardioducts with one pair of proximal vesiculae seminales and one pair of small, distal receptacula seminis. Cnidaria­vorous.

Holotype (9 mm long) = NMSZ 2005075.01 : CHALLENGER 10/83 Sta. 250, 59°43’N, 12°33’W, 1270 m; mantle sclerites (slides), series of histological cross­sections (slides) . Paratype (15 mm long) = NMSZ 2005075.02 : from type locality. Mantle sclerites (slides), series of histological cross­sections (slides)

Etymology: Latin glandulosus = rich in glands; referring to the high number of glandular organs of the species