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Armandia sampadae, a new species of polychaete (Opheliidae) from Andaman Sea, Northern Indian Ocean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2015

Aiswarya Gopal ,
Abdul Jaleel K.U. ,
Usha V. Parameswaran  and
Anil Kumar Vijayan
Aiswarya Gopal*
Affiliation:
Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, 6th floor, Block C, Kendriya Bhavan, Kakkanad, Kochi, Kerala, India
Abdul Jaleel K.U.
Affiliation:
Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, 6th floor, Block C, Kendriya Bhavan, Kakkanad, Kochi, Kerala, India
Usha V. Parameswaran
Affiliation:
Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, 6th floor, Block C, Kendriya Bhavan, Kakkanad, Kochi, Kerala, India
Anil Kumar Vijayan
Affiliation:
Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, 6th floor, Block C, Kendriya Bhavan, Kakkanad, Kochi, Kerala, India
*
Correspondence should be addressed to:A. Gopal, Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, 6th floor, Block C, Kendriya Bhavan, Kakkanad, Kochi, Kerala, India email: [email protected]
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Abstract

A new species of polychaete, Armandia sampadae was collected from shallow sandy sediments off Rutland Island (57 m depth) and off North Andaman (52 m depth) during a benthic survey along the continental shelf of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The major character which distinguishes this species from other members of the genus Armandia is the presence of a pair of large, flattened, rounded, stalked, pigmented, leaf-shaped ventral papillae at the ventral base of the ringed anal funnel and the occurrence of a pair of sub-triangular black pigmented spots in the basal portion of the ventral papillae.

Keywords

Armandianew speciesOpheliidaepolychaeteAndaman SeaIndian Ocean
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 96 , Issue 8 , December 2016 , pp. 1625 - 1632
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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