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Issue: Vol. 4244 No. 3: 21 Mar. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.3.8
Page range: 403–415
Abstract views: 123
PDF downloaded: 2

Diversity of Sternaspidae (Annelida: Terebellida) in the South China Sea, with descriptions of four new species

Department of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
Department of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China Corresponding author. E-mail:
Annelida Sternaspis Petersenaspis taxonomy Chinese waters South China Sea

Abstract

Sternaspidae is one of the most common groups of polychaetes in the South China Sea, where however, the knowledge of its diversity and distribution is insufficiently understood and reports of the European species Sternaspis scutata are misidentifications. Based on the examination of material deposited in the Marine Biological Museum of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, we made a comprehensive investigation on the sternaspid polychaetes in the northern South China Sea. Five species belonging to two genera are described: Petersenaspis salazari sp. nov., Sternaspis radiata sp. nov., S. spinosa Sluiter, 1882, S. sunae sp. nov. and S. wui sp. nov. A taxonomic key to ten species of Sternaspidae found in the South China Sea is provided.

 

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