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Issue: Vol. 3856 No. 2: 22 Aug. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-08-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3856.2.3
Page range: 211–226
Abstract views: 57
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new species and a new record of Scale-worms (Polychaeta) from Southwest Atlantic deep-sea coral mounds 

Laboratório de Polychaeta, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro; Caixa Postal 74524; CEP 23851-970, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Laboratório de Polychaeta, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro; Caixa Postal 74524; CEP 23851-970, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Deep-sea coral Enallopsammia rostrata Lophelia pertusa Solenosmilia variabilis Harmothoe Polynoidae Pholoides Sigalionidae Pholoidae

Abstract

Two new species of scale-worms, Harmothoe ruthae sp. nov. (Polynoidae) and Pholoides sinepapillatus sp. nov. (Sigalionidae) are described. In addition, we expand the description of Harmothoe gilchristi and extend its distribution to the Southwest Atlantic. The three species were found among the species of corals Lophelia pertusa, Solenosmilia variabilis, Enallopsammia rostrata, Madrepora oculata and Errina sp., a total of 257 samples of these corals were taken between 570 m and 1040 m depth, at the North-East coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.