WoRMS taxon details
original description
Wang, Yueyun; Li, Xinzheng. (2016). A new Maldane species and a new Maldaninae genus and species (Maldanidae, Annelida) from coastal waters of China. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 603: 1-16., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.603.9125 page(s): 5; note: for Paramaldane glandicincta [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Body with 19 chaetigers. Cephalic plate circular. Prostomial palpode bluntly rounded, and confluent with cephalic rim. Cephalic rim low and entire with slight incisions. Cephalic keel short. First chaetiger without collar. Chaetiger 6 with a collar-like glandular band. Neurochaetae beginning on the second chaetiger. Notochaetae spirally fringed with short companion chaetae. Two preanal achaetigerous segment. Anus dorsal, with anal valve. Anal plate well-developed, but no anal cirri, with two lateral deep incisions on anal rim. (slightly modified from authors' text) [details]
Etymology authors: "generic name is a combination of the prefix para- (meaning resembing) and the generic name Maldane. The new genus is related to Maldane in morphology. Gender: feminine" [details]
Grammatical gender feminine (authors) [details]
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