A new record of the meiobenthic priapulid Tubiluchus from Cabo Verde and a comparison of external characters in adults within the genus

By

Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas
Sørensen, Martin V.
Ott, Jörg
Raeker, Jan

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2026-1-28

Original Publication

Evolutionary systematics

Volume

10

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

1--20

Subjects

Meiobenthic , new record , Priapulida , SEM , Tubiluchus

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Hamburg Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.10.181089

 

Abstract

<br> Two specimens of the genus<br> Tubiluchus<br> (Priapulida) are reported from Cabo Verde, this is the southernmost record in the Eastern Atlantic for this genus. Specimens likely belong to<br> T. lemburgi<br> , a species known from the Canary Islands. There are some minor differences between Cabo Verde and Canary Island populations. For better comparison, the species<br> T. lemburgi<br> and<br> T. corallicola<br> are reinvestigated and characters insufficiently documented in the literature are described. Some taxonomically important characters are clarified, because they have been described using various terms in the literature. A comparison of characters between all described<br> Tubiluchus<br> species identifies several differences, especially in the structure of scalids, buccal papillae and pharyngeal teeth.<br>