Sternaspis sp.

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

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CC23B8CE-8C8E-473C-BD8C-44E74252A33D

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/651B416E-609C-E959-59E3-62EC81FD7527

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Sternaspis sp.
status

 

Sternaspis sp. Fig. 32A, B View Figure 32

Diagnosis.

Body ~ 5 mm long and <2 mm wide. Segments between introvert and rest of body highly cinched, with body 0.7 mm wide at narrowest point. Differing colouration between introvert and abdomen apparent. Ventro-caudal shield a bright orange colour, ribbed and concentrically ringed.

Remarks.

These specimens may also represent Sternaspis cf. annenkovae , but further investigation is required to confirm this.

Records.

3 specimens. Suppl. material 1: ops. 35, 40 (AM).