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New record and new species of Scolelepis (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from the Venezuelan Caribbean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2009

Víctor Hugo Delgado-Blas ,
Oscar F. Díaz Díaz  and
Ildefonso Liñero-Arana
Víctor Hugo Delgado-Blas*
Affiliation:
Universidad de Quintana Roo, División de Ciencias e Ingeniería, Apartado Postal 10, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, 77019, México
Oscar F. Díaz Díaz
Affiliation:
Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela, Universidad de Oriente, Sucre-Venezuela
Ildefonso Liñero-Arana
Affiliation:
Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela, Universidad de Oriente, Sucre-Venezuela
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: V.H. Delgado-Blas, Universidad de Quintana Roo, División de Ciencias e, Ingeniería, Apartado Postal 10, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, 77019, México email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Two species of Scolelepis were found off the Venezuelan coast, one of these is a new record for this region, and the other is a species new to science: Scolelepis (Scolelepis) lighti Delgado-Blas, 2006, and Scolelepis (S.) andradei sp. nov., respectively. Scolelepis (Scolelepis) lighti was previously known only from the Gulf of Mexico and Florida, but the Venezuelan specimens closely match the original description. Scolelepis (S.) andradei is distinguished by the fusion of the anterior and posterior branchiae to the notopodial lamellae, bidentate notopodial hooded hooks starting from setigers 23–29, and the absence of notopodial hooks.

Keywords

new recordnew speciesScolelepisVenezuelan Caribbean
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 90 , Issue 4 , June 2010 , pp. 783 - 787
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2009

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