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Issue: Vol. 2067 No. 1: 8 Apr. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-04-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2067.1.3
Page range: 51–61
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 1

New records of sipunculan worms from Taiwan

Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
Sipuncula Taiwan

Abstract

Sipunculan worms occurring in Taiwanese waters were studied, and 11 species are recorded for the first time. They are: Sipunculidae ― Sipunculus (Sipunculus) robustus Keferstein, Siphonosoma funafuti (Shipley), S. vastum (Selenka and Bülow); Golfingiidae ― Golfingia (Golfingia) margaritacea margaritacea (Sars), G. muricaudata (Southern), Thysanocardia nigra (Ikeda); Themistidae ― Themiste (Lagenopsis) minor minor (Ikeda); Phascolosomatidae ― Phascolosoma arcuatum (Gray), P. glabrum glabrum (Sluiter); Aspidosiphonidae ― Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) muelleri Diesing, and Aspidosiphon (Paraspidosiphon) coyi de Quatrefages. This makes a total number of 29 species now known from this geographic region.

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