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Type: Article
Published: 2015-09-18
Page range: 61–69
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Neosabellides lizae, a new species of Ampharetidae (Annelida) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Uni Research, Thormøhlensgate 55, N-5020 Bergen, Norway. Natural History Collections, University Museum of Bergen, Allègaten 41, 5007 Bergen, Norway.
Natural History Collections, University Museum of Bergen, Allègaten 41, 5007 Bergen, Norway. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovsky pr. 36, 117997 Moscow, Russia.
Annelida Queensland intertidal Polychaeta juvenile identification key

Abstract

Neosabellides lizae, a new species of Ampharetidae, is described from the intertidal zone off Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. The new species is referred to the genus Neosabellides based on the shape of the prostomium, three pairs of branchiae, 14 thoracic segments with notopodia, 12 thoracic uncinigerous segments, and the first two pairs of abdominal uncinigers of thoracic type. The new species differs from all known species of Neosabellides in having 14 abdominal uncinigerous segments.