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Issue: Vol. 4019 No. 1: 18 Sept. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-09-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.27
Page range: 773–801
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 67

Orbiniidae (Annelida: Errantia) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia with notes on orbiniid phylogeny

N.A.Pertsov White Sea Biological Station, Biological faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1–12, Moscow 119234, Russia.
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Science, Nakhimovski prospect 36, Moscow117997, Russia. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow 117997, Russia.
N.A.Pertsov White Sea Biological Station, Biological faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1–12, Moscow 119234, Russia. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow 117997, Russia.
Annelida Scoloplos Leitoscoloplos Leodamas Naineris 18S rDNA 16S rDNA CO1

Abstract

The fauna of Orbiniidae (Annelida: Errantia) from the Lizard Island has been studied. Five species were found and each was redescribed and illustrated using light microscopy and SEM. Scoloplos acutissimus Hartmann-Schröder, 1991 and Scoloplos dayi Hartmann-Schröder, 1980 collected for the first time since their original descriptions and confirmed through re-examination of their type materials. Molecular analyses were carried out using nuclear 18S rDNA and mitochondrial 16S rDNA and CO1 gene sequences with evolutionary distances and the Neighbor-Joining Method. The molecular analyses did not support the monophyly of the genera Scoloplos, Leitoscoloplos, Leodamas, and Naineris, and its results are incongruent with morphological data.