A new species of Fauveliopsidae (Annelida) from the North Sea

By

Zhadan, Anna
Atroshchenko, Margarita

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

181

Pages

1-10

Subjects

Annelida , Fauveliopsidae , Laubieriopsis norvegica , new species , Northeast Atlantic , Norway , Polychaeta , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.181.2712

 

Abstract

A new species of the genus Laubieriopsis Petersen, 2000 is described based on 28 specimens collected in the north-east part of the North Sea. It is characterized by fixed number of chaetigers (22), paired genital papillae, bidentate neurochaeta of chaetigers 1–4, the absence of acicular chaetae on chaetigers 5–21 and, on the last chaetiger, one acicular and three capillary chaetae enlarged and directed backward. The present study brings the number of known species of Laubieriopsis to five and the number of Northeast Atlantic species of this genus to two.