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A new species of Synelmis (Annelida: Polychaeta: Pilargidae) from the continental slope off Galicia (north-western Iberian peninsula)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2007

Juan Moreira
Affiliation:
Estación de Bioloxía Mariña da Graña, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, rúa da Ribeira 1, A Graña, E-15590 Ferrol, Spain Departamento de Bioloxía Animal & Instituto de Acuicultura, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Sur, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Julio Parapar
Affiliation:
Departamento de Bioloxía Animal, Bioloxía Vexetal e Ecoloxía, Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, Alejandro da Sota 1, E-15008 A Coruña, Spain

Abstract

A new species of Synelmis (Annelida: Polychaeta: Pilargidae), Synelmis urgorrii sp. nov., is described from the continental slope off north-western Spain. The new species is characterized by having antennae, peristomial cirri and parapodial cirri cirriform, lateral antennae located in the proximal third of the prostomium, notospines starting on chaetigers 7–11, well-developed neuropodial lobe and asymmetrical furcate chaetae, those of anterior chaetigers distinctly spinulated.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2007 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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