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Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W.; Ruta, Christine; Wiklund, Helena; Nygren, Arne. (2008). Vrijenhoekia balaenophila, a new hesionid polychaete from a whale fall off California. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 152(4): 625-634.
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10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00360.x [view]
Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W.; Ruta, Christine; Wiklund, Helena; Nygren, Arne
2008
<i>Vrijenhoekia balaenophila</i>, a new hesionid polychaete from a whale fall off California.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
152(4): 625-634
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
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Vrijenhoekia balaenophila gen. nov., sp. nov. (Polychaeta, Hesionidae) is described from a whale carcass at near 3000 in depth in Monterey Canyon off the coast of California. The phylogenetic relationships of V. balaenophila are assessed in a parsimony analysis of morphological data together with nucleotide data from 28S rDNA, 16S rDNA and cytochrome oxidase I genes. Within the hesionids V. balaenophila belongs to Psamathini, where it is the sister group to Sirsoe. Among psamathins it is morphologically distinguished by having six glandular lip pads around the mouth opening, papilla-shaped neuropodial lobes on segment 3, extreme length of the dorsal cirri, and by a characteristic growth pattern in which the maximum number of segments is already formed in subadults, and further growth takes place through size increase of the segments. (C) 2008 The Linnean Society of London.
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Holotype SMNH 6305, verbatimGeounit Monterey Canyon, off..., identified as Vrijenhoekia balaenophila Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008
 Diagnosis
 for Vrijenhoekia Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008

Original diagnosis by Pleijel et al (2008): As for species: Apomorphies: Three pairs of large glandular lip pads ... [details]
 Diagnosis
 for Vrijenhoekia balaenophila Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008

As for genus: Apomorphies: Three pairs of large glandular lip pads surrounding mouth opening, papilla-shaped ... [details]
 Etymology
 for Vrijenhoekia Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008

Named for Bob Vrijenhoek, in recognition of his contributions to the study of whale falls. Gender masculine. The ... [details]
 Etymology
 for Vrijenhoekia balaenophila Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008

Authors: Vrijenhoekia balaenophila is "named for its affinity to whale bones" They do not explain in detail. Greek ... [details]
 Habitat
 for Vrijenhoekia balaenophila Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008

On sunken whale bones, together with Osedax siboglinids. Known only from the type locality on a grey whale carcass ... [details]
 Synonymy
 for Vrijenhoekia Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008

Strictly the type species of Vrijenhoekia, V. balaenophila places within Sirsoe according to phylogeny figures ... [details]
 Type locality
 for Vrijenhoekia balaenophila Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008

Monterey Canyon, off California, 36° 36.8′ N, 122° 26.0′ W (36.6133°, -122.4333°), 2891 m. [details]

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