Melinnopsis chadwicki Gunton, Kupriyanova & Alvestad, 2020

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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1020.57921

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Melinnopsis chadwicki Gunton, Kupriyanova & Alvestad, 2020
status

 

Melinnopsis chadwicki Gunton, Kupriyanova & Alvestad, 2020

Diagnosis.

Neurochaetae small acicular spines with lanceolate tips on segments 2-5. Neuropodial uncini from chaetiger 5 (segment VI), present in 12 thoracic uncinigers. Postbranchial dorsal membrane low inconspicuous, located on chaetiger 4. Branchiae emerging together on dorsal branchial ridge at level of segments II and III, arranged in two basally fused groups of four. Uncini of thoracic uncinigers with two teeth in one vertical row over rostral tooth, subrostral process and basal prow.

Remarks.

Type locality is eastern Australia at 1006-1257 m. For detailed description see Melinnopsis chadwicki Gunton et al. (2020).

Records.

27 specimens: Suppl. material 1: ops. 69, 80, 104, 121 (AM).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Phyllodocida

Family

Melinnidae

Genus

Melinnopsis