Notoproctus cf. scutiferus Wesenberg-Lund, 1948

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

Notoproctus cf. scutiferus Wesenberg-Lund, 1948 Fig. 14H

Diagnosis.

Only two posterior fragments available, largest 26 mm long and 0.8 mm wide for 13 chaetigers and two achaetous preanal segments. Anal plate oval, without distinct rim. A characteristic quadrangular pad/ridge present ventrally on preanal chaetigers, slightly overhanging ventral part of anal plate. Tube relatively robust, incrusted with small stones and shell fragments. Brown/black pigmentation on tori.

Remarks.

The species is similar to N. scutiferus Wesenberg-Lund, 1948, described from abyssal depths in the NW Atlantic, in the presence of a quadrangular pad/ridge ventrally on preanal achaetigerous segments.

Records.

2 specimens. Suppl. material 1: op. 32 (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).