NO. 1 hartman: goniadidae, glyceridae, nephtyidae 13 



Genus Goniada Audouin and Edwards, 1834 

 Type G. emerita Audouin and Edwards 



Includes Leonnatus Kinberg, 1866 



The body is more or less sharply divided into 2 or 3 regions, an 

 anterior one with uniramous parapodia, a posterior one with biramous 

 ones, or also a transitional one with subbiramous podia. The prostomium 

 is long and conical or depressed (pi. 1, fig. 1). It consists of annulations 

 or rings and ends in front in 4 slender, Particulate antennae. The 

 proboscis is long and cylindrical or slightly clavate, when everted. 

 Paragnaths include a pair of large, dentate macrognaths separated from 

 each other by dorsal and ventral arcs of micrognaths (textfig. 1) or one 

 or both of these arcs may be absent. The proximal part of the proboscis 

 has, on either side, a series of dark, hard V-shaped pieces or chevrons. 

 Most of the proximal surface is covered with minute, fleshy or some- 

 times corneous, yellow or colorless, proboscidial organs that are irreg- 

 ularly distributed or in longitudinal bands. 



Notopodia have single acicula and setae that are acicular to rod- 

 like or slender and hairlike. Neuropodia have single acicula and com- 

 posite setae with spinigerous appendage. The presetal neuropodial lobe 

 is usually deeply bifurcated (pi. 1, fig. 2). 



The numerous species of Goniada are approximately divisible into 

 2 groups, based on the relative thickness and number of notosetae. In 

 some species the notosetae are slender, distally pointed or hairlike; in 

 others they are thicker, fewer and acicular. Although this separation is 

 artificial, it is useful in effecting an approximate grouping. 



The species that may be regarded as having hairlike notosetae are: 

 G. annulata Moore, see p. 20. 

 G. brunnea Treadwell, see p. 17. 

 G. congoensis Grube, see p. 28. 

 G. congoensis hupferi Arwidsson, see p. 28. 

 G. eximia Monro, 1937, see p. 31. 

 G. falklandica Pratt, see p. 30. 

 G. littorea, new species, see p. 23. 

 G. maculata Oersted, see p. 20. 

 G. maorica Benham, see p. 29. 



G. norvegica Oersted, see Fauvel, 1923, p. 393, fig. 155. 

 G. pallida Arwidsson, 1899, p. 43, from western Sweden. 

 G. quinquelabiata Augener, see p. 26. 

 G. uncinigera Ehlers, see p. 25. 



