First records of Brada kudenovi Salazar-Vallejo, 2017 (Annelida, Flabelligeridae) from Japan

By

Jimi, Naoto
Imura, Satoshi

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-2-21

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

16

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

207--210

Subjects

deep sea , flabelligerids , Polychaeta , Polychaete , Tohoku

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/16.1.207

 

Abstract

We reassess two specimens, part of the late Dr Minoru Imajima’s collections, from Japan of the flabelligerid genus Brada Stimpson, 1853. We re-identify the specimens as B. kudenovi Salazar-Vallejo, 2017 and newly record this species from Japan, which represents the southernmost locality of the genus worldwide. The specimens were previously reported as B. inhabilis (Rathke, 1843), which has Molde, Norway as its type locality. However, the morphological features are identical to the original description of B. kudenovi in the following: the body is whitish in alcohol; there are one or two multiarticulate notochaetae per parapodium; the neuropodial lobes are low, not projecting; and the body papillae are short.