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Issue: Vol. 4337 No. 3: 19 Oct. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-10-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4337.3.2
Page range: 344–360
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Remarkable biodiversity of flabelligerids in Japan: seven new species of Diplocirrus (Annelida: Flabelligeridae) from Japanese waters

Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, N10 W8, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Department of Marine Biodiversity Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan
Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, N10 W8, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Annelida biodiversity COI deep sea Polychaeta polychaetes taxonomy

Abstract

Seven new species of Diplocirrus are described from Japan: D. asamushiensis sp. nov., D. imajimai sp. nov., D. mamoi sp. nov., D. ohtsukai sp. nov., D. seisuiae sp. nov., D. tohokuensis sp. nov., and D. toyoshioae sp. nov. These species are distinguished from all the known species of Diplocirrus by the following features: length of the cephalic cage, length of lateral papillae, presence of gonopodial lobe, adhering pattern of sediment particles, length of caruncle, length and morphological feature of branchiae, articles and morphological features of neurochaetae, and swollen area along the body.

 

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