Diopatra marocensis Paxton, Fadlaoui & Lechapt, 1995

Paxton, Hannelore & Arias, Andres, 2017, Unveiling a surprising diversity of the genus Diopatra Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833 (Annelida: Onuphidae) in the Macaronesian region (eastern North Atlantic) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4300 (4), pp. 505-535 : 523-524

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.4.3

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5492083

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Diopatra marocensis Paxton, Fadlaoui & Lechapt, 1995
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Diopatra marocensis Paxton, Fadlaoui & Lechapt, 1995 View in CoL

Figure 12 View FIGURE 12 ; Table 1

Diopatra marocensis Paxton et al., 1995: 950 View in CoL , figs 1–2.— Rodrigues et al. 2009:609 –617. (Portugal).— Arias et al. 2010: 67 –68 (Spain).— Arias et al. 2013: 1533 –1542 (Spain).

Diopatra cuprea View in CoL .—? Monro 1924:193 –199, figs 1–3 (Madeira). Not Bosc, 1802.

Material examined. Type material. Paratypes (10 specimens): (AM W.22182) Sidi Boulbra , Morocco, 30°55’N – 09°31’W, depth 25 m, 1990. GoogleMaps

Non-type material. MNCN 16.01 View Materials /17820 (2 specimens), La Laja beach, Gran Canaria , Canary Islands, 28°03’N – 15°25’W, intertidal, coll. A. Arias, 12 Jul 2012. GoogleMaps

Type locality. Eastern North Atlantic , Morocco, off Sidi Boulbra, 28°03’N – 15°25’W, depth 25 m. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Prostomium anteriorly rounded with two subulate frontal lips. Palps reaching chaetiger 3, antennae to chaetiger 10–12, ceratophores with six to nine rings, lateral processes absent; nuchal grooves crescentic; peristomial cirri present. Anterior four chaetigers with bidentate pseudocompound hooks with pointed hoods; single postchaetal lobes. Ventral parapodial lobes absent; ventral cirri on four to five chaetigers. Subacicular hooks from chaetiger 13–15; pectinate chaetae with 11–20 teeth; spiralled branchiae, first on chaetiger 4–5, last on chaetiger 30–40. Colour pattern usually present ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 A), formed by brown pigmentation and irregular white dots; prostomium and styles of antennae and palps with irregular specks, ceratophores with pigmented rings; peristomium and anterior chaetigers with diffuse pigmentation covering most of segment, but leaving oval middorsal patch and two smaller lateral patches free, lateral patches becoming intersegmental by chaetiger 10; lateral intersegmental patches at base of parapodia; pattern fading from chaetiger 15-20. Tube typical of genus with inner secreted layer and outer layer of foreign particles consisting mainly of algae and vegetal material ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 B), and protruding 3-4 cm above sediment (tube-cap) ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 A, B).

Remarks. Monro (1924) reported juvenile and post-larval specimens in a muddy tube that were collected from Madeira as D. cuprea . In view of the fact that D. marocensis is the only known tube brooder of the genus in the area, we consider it most likely that the specimens belonged to this species.

Distribution. Eastern North Atlantic, from the Bay of Biscay to the Canary Islands and the Levantine basin of the Mediterranean Sea.

MNCN

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Eunicida

Family

Onuphidae

Genus

Diopatra

Loc

Diopatra marocensis Paxton, Fadlaoui & Lechapt, 1995

Paxton, Hannelore & Arias, Andres 2017
2017
Loc

Diopatra marocensis Paxton et al., 1995 : 950

Arias 2013: 1533
Arias 2010: 67
Rodrigues 2009: 609
Paxton 1995: 950
1995
Loc

Diopatra cuprea

Monro 1924: 193
1924
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