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Capa, María; Osborn, Karen J.; Bakken, Torkild. (2016). Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) of the deep Northwestern Atlantic, including remarkable new species of Euritmia and Sphaerephesia. ZooKeys. 615: 1-32.
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Capa, María; Osborn, Karen J.; Bakken, Torkild
2016
Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) of the deep Northwestern Atlantic, including remarkable new species of <em>Euritmia</em> and <em>Sphaerephesia</em>
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615: 1-32
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World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
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Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) is a seeming uncommon and minimally diverse group of polychaetes in the northwestern Atlantic, with only seven species reported from the United States, and none from the eastern coast of Canada, before the present study. Review of the large Smithsonian collection (National Museum of Natural History, Washington) revealed the presence of two morphologically extraordinary undescribed species and added a new record to the north-western Atlantic region. Euritmia carolensis sp. n. is characterised by bearing approximately 20 sessile spherical papillae arranged in three transverse rows per segment, ventrum with 4–6 larger papillae near the parapodial bases and parapodia without papillae; bearing 4–5 simple chaetae that are enlarged subdistally. Sphaerephesia amphorata sp. n. is distinguished from other congeners in the presence of four longitudinal rows of sessile, bottle-shaped macrotubercles with exceptionally long digitiform terminal papilla, and parapodia with four rounded and small papillae, bearing 4–7 compound chaetae, with blades 7–11 times as long as wide. Other encountered species are also herein re-described, including intraspecific variation and updated iconography. Comparison of material also allowed some systematic changes in the group, including the synonymisation of the genus Amacrodorum with Euritmia, and the transfer of Ephesiopsis shivae to Ephesiella. A key to the species reported from the Northwestern Atlantic is provided.
North-western Atlantic
Atlantic, North West (= warm + cold temporate (boreal))
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Holotype LACM LACM-AHF POLY 950, geounit Long Island Continental Shelf, identified as Sphaerodoropsis corrugata Hartman & Fauchald, 1971
Holotype USNM 1001792, geounit South Carolina, identified as Euritmia carolensis Capa, Osborn & Bakken, 2016
 Etymology

Authors: carolensis "refers to the type locality North Carolina". This is a lapsus for South Carolina as stated ... [details]

 Etymology

Authors: "Amphora, is a Greek word that refers to the pottery vases used since the Bronze Age by the Greco-Romans ... [details]

 Taxonomy

Capa et al (2016) do not actually use the new combination name, Ephesiella shivae. However, "transfer of ... [details]

 Type locality

Off Charleston Bump, South Carolina, United States, northwestern Atlantic, 32.3944 N, 77.0181 W, 799 m [details]

 Type locality

Offshore from Long Island, New York, west of Atlantis Canyon, New England continental slope, North Atlantic, ... [details]