Polycirrus papillosus Carrerette & Nogueira, 2013

Glasby, Christopher J. & Hutchings, Pat, 2014, Revision of the taxonomy of Polycirrus Grube, 1850 (Annelida: Terebellida: Polycirridae), Zootaxa 3877 (1), pp. 1-117 : 86

Polycirrus papillosus Carrerette & Nogueira, 2013

Table 1

Polycirrus papillosus Carrerette & Nogueira, 2013: 158–162 , figs 4–6, tables 2, 4.

Type locality. Campos Basin , mouth of Rio Paraíba do Sol, State of Rio de Janeiro Brazil. 21˚42′33.078′′ S, 40˚9′5.988′′ W, in 147 m.

Material examined. None.

Comments. The species has been thoroughly described by Carrerette & Nogueira (2013) and the description is not repeated here. We have included it in the key to facilitate identification and comparison with other species. Carrerette & Nogueira (2013) note the alliance of this species with other Group 1A taxa identified by Glasby and Glasby (2006), i.e., having Type 1 uncini and notopodia terminating before segment 20, and they make a number of comparisons with other Group 1A species. However, they do not compare their species with P. medusa , which we find to be most similar based on characters used in the key. Polycirrus papillosus may be easily distinguished from P. medusa by the form of the ventral pads (papillose in former, smooth in the latter) and the more elongate base of the uncini in P. papillosus compared to P. medusa .