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Deep-sea polychaetes from north-west Africa, including a description of a new species of Neopolynoe (Polynoidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2001

J.B. Kirkegaard
J.B. Kirkegaard
Affiliation:
Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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Abstract

Polychaete worms obtained by RRS ‘Discovery’ from 200 to 4850 m north-west of Africa in 1979 contained 24 species of which five: Macellicephala violacea, Bathyeliosona abyssicola, Laetmonice filicornis, Maldanella harai and Potamilla torelli were present in the abyssal zone (>2000 m). Macellicephala violacea is widely distributed in the Arctic and the present record is the southern-most record of this species. Fifteen species were recorded from the bathyal zone, many of which have a wide distribution in the oceans. A Neopolynoe species from the bathyal zone is new to science.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 391 - 397
Copyright
2001 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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