Lepidonotus
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Ordo: Phyllodocida
Familia: Polynoidae
Name
Lepidonotus Leach, 1816 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Type species
Aphrodita clava Montagu, 1808
Leach 1816[1], Hanley and Burke 1991[2], Ruff 1995[3], Chambers and Muir 1997[4], Barnich and Fiege 2003[5].
Diagnosis
Body short, arched, with 26 segments. Bilobed prostomium extending anteriorly into ceratophores of terminally-attached lateral antennae. Antennae and cirri smooth. Facial tubercle present; buccal segment with or without nuchal fold. Twelve pairs of elytra on segments 2, 4, 5, 7.... 21 and 23. Notopodia small or vestigial; unidentate notochaetae short, slender, spinose, or notochaetae capillaries sometimes present. Neuropodia large, with or without acicular lobe; neurochaetae stout, long, with subdistal spines and unidentate or occasionally bidentate tips.
Remarks
The genus Lepidonotus contains more than 70 species distributed worldwide (Ruff 1995[3]). However, only 18 species and subspecies have been reported for South America, including the two new records described here.
Taxon Treatment
- De Assis, J; de Brito, R; Christoffersen, M; de Souza, J; 2015: A catalogue of the scaleworm genus Lepidonotus (Polynoidae, Polychaeta) from South America, with two new records for Brazilian waters ZooKeys, (533): 63-98. doi
Other References
- ↑ Leach W (1816) Vermes Polychaeta. Encyclopedia Britannica, Supplement 6: 451–452.
- ↑ Hanley J, Burke M (1991) Polychaeta Polynoidae: Scaleworms of the Chesterfield Island and Fairways Reefs, Coral Sea. Mémoires du Muséum National d‘Histoire Naturelle Series A 151: 9–82.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ruff R (1995) Family Polynoidae Malmgren, 1867. In: Blake J Hilbig B Scott P (Eds) Taxonomic atlas of the benthic fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and western Santa Barbara Channel. Volume 5–the Annelida Part 2-Polychaeta: Phyllodocida (Syllidae and scale-bearing families), Amphinomida, and Eunicida. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California, 105–166.
- ↑ Chambers S, Muir A (1997) Polychaetes: British Chrysopetaloidea, Pisionoidea and Aphroditoidea. Synopsis of the British Fauna 54: 1–202.
- ↑ Barnich R, Fiege D (2003) The Aphroditoidea (Annelida, Polychaeta) of the Mediterranean Sea. Abh. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 559: 1–167.
