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A new species of Orbiniella (Polychaeta: Orbiniidae) from deep basins of Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2005

Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy  and
James A. Blake
Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts–Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125-3393, USA Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, Argyll, PA37 1QA, UK
James A. Blake
Affiliation:
ENSR Marine and Coastal Center, 89 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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Abstract

During the 2002 Antarctic Deep-sea Biodiversity (ANDEEP) programme to the Drake Passage, Weddell Sea Basin and South Sandwich Slope and trench, a new deep-water species of orbiniid polychaete was collected: Orbiniella andeepia sp. nov. Orbiniella andeepia appears to be most closely related to O. marionensis but differs in capillary setal structure, the type and number of acicular spines found in each podial lobe. Orbiniella andeepia is only the third deep-water species of Orbiniella to be discovered. It exhibits both a wide depth- and geographic-range within the Antarctic slope and abyssal sediments.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 85 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 843 - 846
Copyright
2005 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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