Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 5551 No. 1: 11 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5551.1.7
Page range: 157-166
Abstract views: 109
PDF downloaded: 10

Laonice Malmgren, 1867 (Annelida: Spionidae) from the Aysén region in southern Chile with description of a new species

Universidad Autónoma de Quintana Roo; División de Ciencias; Ingeniería y Tecnologia; Chetumal; Quintana Roo; 77019; México
FAUNAMAR Ltda. Consultorias Medio Ambientales e Investigación Marina; Santiago. Chile; Postgrado en Ciencias Marinas; Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela; Venezuela
FAUNAMAR Ltda. Consultorias Medio Ambientales e Investigación Marina; Santiago. Chile
Annelida Systematic morphology Spionidae Laonice Southern Chile

Abstract

Specimens of Laonice collected from southern Chile were examined, and one new species was described. Laonice ayseniensis sp. nov. is characterized by having an anteriorly fused prostomium and peristomium, giving a bicornate, cap-shaped appearance; nuchal organs and caruncle extending up to chaetigers 14–16; very small, subtriangular first notopodial postchaetal lamellae, shorter than the neuropodial lamellae; leaf-like notopodial postchaetal lamellae in the branchial region, with pairs 4, 13, and 14 larger and wider than the other pairs; very low dorsal transverse ridges on chaetigers 37–48; the first neuropodial postchaetal lamellae rectangular with rounded edges, oval with earlobe-shaped ventral edges on chaetigers 2–8; ventrolateral pouches from chaetigers 35–48 up to chaetiger 57; hooded hooks with a distal opening; a pygidium with two small ventral papilliform cirri arranged close to each other and five long cirri. Additional information about the morphological characters of L. praecirrata Hartmann-Schröder, 1965 is provided, using material collected near to the type locality. An identification key for all South American species is provided.

 

References

  1. Aguirrezabalaga, F. & Ceberio, A. (2005) Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Capbreton Canyon (Bay of Biscay, NE Atlantic) with descriptions of a new genus and three new species. Marine Biology Research, 1 (4), 267–280. https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000500262066
  2. Blake, J.A. (1983) Polychaetes of the family Spionidae from South America, Antarctica and adjacent seas and islands. Biology of Antarctic Seas XIV. Antarctic Research Series, 39, 205–288.
  3. Bogantes, V.E., Halanych, K.H. & Meißner, K. (2018) Diversity and phylogenetic relationships of North Atlantic Laonice Malmgren, 1867 (Spionidae, Annelida) including the description of a novel species. Marine Biodiversity, 48 (2), 737–749.
  4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-018-0859-8
  5. Coleman, C.O. (2006) Substituting time-consuming pencil drawings in arthropod taxonomy using stacks of digital photographs. Zootaxa, 1360 (1), 61–68. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1360.1.4
  6. Díaz–Díaz, O. & N. Rozbaczylo. (2020) Familia Spionidae Grube, 1850. In: Diaz–Díaz, O. & N. Rozbaczylo (Eds), Poliquetos bentónicos en Chile asociados a hábitats vulnerables. Santiago, Chile, pp. 139–155.
  7. Hartman, O. (1978) Polychaeta from the Weddell Sea quadrant, Antarctica. Antarctic Research Series, 26 (4), 125–223.
  8. Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1965) Zur Kenntnis des Sublitorals der chilenischen Küste unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. II Die Polychaeten des Sublitorals. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 62 (Supplement), 59–305.
  9. Guggolz, T., Meißner, K., Schwentner, M. & Brandt, A. (2019) Diversity and distribution of Laonice species (Annelida: Spionidae) in the tropical North Atlantic and Puerto Rico Trench. Scientific Reports, 9 (1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45807-7
  10. Maciolek, N.J. (2000) New species and records of Aonidella, Laonice, and Spiophanes (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from shelf and slope depth of the western north Atlantic. Bulletin of Marine Science, 67 (1), 529–547.
  11. Malmgren, A.J. (1867) Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiae, Grönlandiae, Islandiae et Scandinaviae hactenus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 24, 127–233. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13358
  12. Meißner, K., Bick, A., Guggolz, T. & Götting, M. (2014) Spionidae (Polychaeta: Canalipalpata: Spionida) from seamounts in the NE Atlantic. Zootaxa, 3786 (3), 201–245. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3786.3.1
  13. Read, G. & Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024) World Polychaeta database. Laonice Malmgren, 1867. Available from: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129613 (accessed 10 June 2024).
  14. Sikorski, A.V. (1997) A new species of Laonice (Spionidae: Polychaeta) from the North-West Atlantic. Zoologichesky Zhurnal, 76 (4), 501–503. [in Russian with English Summary]
  15. Sikorski, A.V. (2003a) Laonice (Polychaeta, Spionidae) in the Arctic and the North Atlantic. Sarsia, 88 (5), 316–345. https://doi.org/10.1080/00364820310002551
  16. Sikorski, A.V. (2003b) On the fauna of the genus Laonice (Polychaeta, Spionidae) in the northern Pacific. Zoologichesky Zhurnal, 82 (10), 1179–1190. [in Russian with English Summary]
  17. Sikorski, A.V. (2011) Review of Laonice (Spionidae, Annelida) with remarks on several species and a description of a new species from South Africa. Italian Journal of Zoology, 78 (S1), 201–214. https://doi.org/10.1080/11250003.2011.617218
  18. Sikorski, A. & Pavlova, L.V. (2016) Three new species of Laonice (Polychaete: Spionidae) from West and Southwest Africa. Zootaxa, 4097 (3), 353–368. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4097.3.4
  19. Sikorski, A., Gunton, L.M. & Pavlova, L.V. (2017) Laonice species (Polychaeta, Spionidae) from the Whittard Canyon (NE Atlantic) with descriptions of two new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 97 (5), 961–973. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315417000480
  20. Sikorski, A., Pavlova, L.V., Sardá, R., Langeneck, J., Gil, J. & Ravara, A. (2021) Two new deep-sea species of Laonice (Annelida: Spionidae) from the Mediterranean Sea. Zootaxa, 4908 (4), 515–526. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4908.4.5
  21. Sikorski, A., Pavlova, L.V., Martin, D. & João, G. (2023) New sublittoral species of Laonice (Annelida: Spionidae) from southern Asian coasts, Zootaxa, 5277 (3), 490–508. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5277.3.3