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Issue: Vol. 4221 No. 4: 19 Jan. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-01-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4221.4.4
Page range: 477–485
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A new species and the shallowest record of Flabegraviera Salazar-Vallejo, 2012 (Annelida: Flabelligeridae) from Antarctica

Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, N10 W8, Sapporo 0060-0810, Japan
National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, N10 W8, Sapporo 0060-0810, Japan
National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Annelida Polychaeta taxonomy Antarctica Syowa Station Nishinoura

Abstract

A new species of polychaete, Flabegraviera fujiae sp. nov., is described and the first report of F. mundata (Gravier, 1906) from the shallow water around Syowa Station, Antarctica, is presented. Flabegraviera fujiae sp. nov. resembles F. profunda Salazar-Vallejo, 2012 but is discriminated from the latter by having eyes and an exposed cephalic cage. The specimen of F. mundata was collected from a depth of 8 m, providing the shallowest record of this species to date.

 

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