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Malmgrenia louiseae sp. nov., a new scale worm species (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from southern Europe with a key to European Malmgrenia species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2014

Jérôme Jourde ,
Leandro Sampaio ,
Ruth Barnich ,
Paulo Bonifácio ,
Céline Labrune ,
Victor Quintino  and
Pierre-Guy Sauriau
Jérôme Jourde*
Affiliation:
Littoral Environnement et Sociétés UMR 7266 CNRS/Université de La Rochelle, Observatoire de la Biodiversité Faune et Flore des Pertuis Charentais (OBIONE), 2 rue Olympe de Gouges, 17000 La Rochelle, France
Leandro Sampaio
Affiliation:
Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Ruth Barnich
Affiliation:
Thomson Unicomarine Ltd., Compass House, Guildford GU2 7AG, UK Senckenberg Research Institute & Natural History Museum, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt, Germany
Paulo Bonifácio
Affiliation:
Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux, UMR 5805 CNRS/Université Bordeaux, Station Marine d'Arcachon, 2 rue du professeur Jolyet, 33120 Arcachon, France Laboratoire d'Ecogéochimie des Environnements Benthiques, UMR 8222 CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, Avenue du Fontaulé, 66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
Céline Labrune
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Ecogéochimie des Environnements Benthiques, UMR 8222 CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, Avenue du Fontaulé, 66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
Victor Quintino
Affiliation:
Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Pierre-Guy Sauriau
Affiliation:
Littoral Environnement et Sociétés UMR 7266 CNRS/Université de La Rochelle, Observatoire de la Biodiversité Faune et Flore des Pertuis Charentais (OBIONE), 2 rue Olympe de Gouges, 17000 La Rochelle, France
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: J. Jourde, Littoral Environnement et Sociétés UMR 7266 CNRS/Université de La Rochelle, Observatoire de la Biodiversité Faune et Flore des Pertuis Charentais (OBIONE), 2 rue Olympe de Gouges, 17000 La Rochelle, France email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Malmgrenia louiseae sp. nov. is described from both the western Mediterranean in the Gulf of Lions, and the north-east Atlantic from off Portugal and the Bay of Biscay. The species was found in muddy sediments in shallow water and is possibly associated with echiurids or synaptid holothurians. Malmgrenia louiseae sp. nov. can be clearly distinguished from all other known Malmgrenia species by the presence of an infra-acicular process in addition to the supra-acicular process on the acicular lobe of the neuropodia, the lack of microtubercules on the elytra, two kinds of notochaetae (stout with blunt tip and slender with fine pointed tip), and exclusively unidentate neurochaetae. An identification key to the north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean Malmgrenia species is provided.

Keywords

PolychaetaPolynoidaetaxonomyMalmgreniaMediterraneannorth-east Atlanticassociations
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 95 , Issue 5 , August 2015 , pp. 947 - 952
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2014 

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