Deep-Sea source details
Gillet, P. (2001). Flabelligena amoureuxi new genus, new species (Polychaeta: Acrocirridae) from Crozet Islands (Indian Ocean). Bulletin of Marine Science. 68(1): 125-131.
49968
Gillet, P.
2001
<i>Flabelligena amoureuxi</i> new genus, new species (Polychaeta: Acrocirridae) from Crozet Islands (Indian Ocean)
Bulletin of Marine Science
68(1): 125-131
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
A new species of Annelida Polychaeta, Flabelligena amoureuxi, family Acrocirridae Banse is decribed from the Crozet Islands (Indian Ocean). Specimens were collected during the Oceanographic Expedition Marion Dufesne MD/08 BENTHOS in 1974. Flabelligena amoureuxi is compared with the other species of the genus Flabelligena and the genus Flabelligera Hartman, 1965.
Indian Ocean
Systematics, Taxonomy
Flabelligella cirrata Hartman & Fauchald, 1971 accepted as Flabelligena cirrata (Hartman & Fauchald, 1971) (new combination reference)
Flabelligena Gillet, 2001 (original description)
Flabelligena amoureuxi Gillet, 2001 (original description)
Flabelligena cirrata (Hartman & Fauchald, 1971) (new combination reference)
Flabelligena Gillet, 2001 (original description)
Flabelligena amoureuxi Gillet, 2001 (original description)
Flabelligena cirrata (Hartman & Fauchald, 1971) (new combination reference)
Paratype, geounit Crozet Islands, identified as Flabelligena amoureuxi Gillet, 2001
Paratype, geounit Crozet Islands, identified as Flabelligena amoureuxi Gillet, 2001
Paratype, geounit Crozet Islands, identified as Flabelligena amoureuxi Gillet, 2001
Holotype IRFA ACR001, geounit Crozet Islands, identified as Flabelligena amoureuxi Gillet, 2001
Paratype, geounit Crozet Islands, identified as Flabelligena amoureuxi Gillet, 2001
Paratype, geounit Crozet Islands, identified as Flabelligena amoureuxi Gillet, 2001
Holotype IRFA ACR001, geounit Crozet Islands, identified as Flabelligena amoureuxi Gillet, 2001
Distribution
South West Indian Ocean: Crozet Islands. [details]
Etymology
The species is named after Dr. Louis Amoureux (1919-2011), taxonomist at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest, ... [details]
Habitat
Known from a Macrocystis holdfast drifting on the bottom, at slope depths. [details]
Type locality
Crozet Islands, South West Indian Ocean (46º03.4'S, 49º47.6'E). [details]
Type material
Holotype (IRFA ACR001) and paratypes (IRFA ACR003 and IRFA ACR004) deposited at the Museum of the Institut de ... [details]
