WoRMS name details
Sternaspis monroi Salazar-Vallejo, 2014
817289 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:817289)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2014). Three new polar species of <em>Sternaspis </em>Otto, 1821 (Polychaeta: Sternaspidae). <i>Zootaxa</i>. 3861(4): 333-344., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3861.4.3
page(s): 337 [details]
page(s): 337 [details]
Holotype BMNH 1930.10.8.2372–2400R, verbatimGeounit...
, Note Off Signy Is, South Orkneys, Scotia Sea, R.V....
Holotype BMNH 1930.10.8.2372–2400R, verbatimGeounit Off Signy Is, South ... [details]
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Type locality Off Signy Is, South Orkneys, Scotia Sea, R.V. Discovery Sta. 167, 60 50' 30"S, 46 15 00"W (-60.8417, -46.25), 244–344 m [details]
Distribution South Orkneys and South Georgia islands, in 238–344 m depth
Etymology after C.C.A. Monro who studied the holotype specimen earlier.
Taxonomy Salazar-Vallejo (2014:339) "Sternaspis monroi n. sp. resembles S. princeps Selenka, 1885 from New Zealand because both have...
Distribution South Orkneys and South Georgia islands, in 238–344 m depth [details]
Etymology after C.C.A. Monro who studied the holotype specimen earlier.
Etymology after C.C.A. Monro who studied the holotype specimen earlier. [details]
Taxonomy Salazar-Vallejo (2014:339) "Sternaspis monroi n. sp. resembles S. princeps Selenka, 1885 from New Zealand because both have...
Taxonomy Salazar-Vallejo (2014:339) "Sternaspis monroi n. sp. resembles S. princeps Selenka, 1885 from New Zealand because both have shields with continuous fans, with margin crenulated, not projecting posteriorly, and although ribs are distinct, concentric lines are hardly visible. These two species differ in the relative shape of each plate and in the distinctness of larger, diagonal ribs; in S. monroi n. sp. plates are wider than long and diagonal rib is indistinct, whereas in S. princeps plates are as long as wide, and diagonal rib is distinct." [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Sternaspis monroi Salazar-Vallejo, 2014. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=817289 on 2024-06-03
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original description
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2014). Three new polar species of <em>Sternaspis </em>Otto, 1821 (Polychaeta: Sternaspidae). <i>Zootaxa</i>. 3861(4): 333-344., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3861.4.3
page(s): 337 [details]
additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1930). Polychaete worms. <em>Discovery Reports, Cambridge.</em> 2: 1-222., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15904801
page(s): 178 [earlier record of holotype identified as S.scutata] [details]
source of synonymy Drennan, Regan; Wiklund, Helena; Rouse, Greg W.; Georgieva, Magdalena N.; Wu, Xuwen; Kobayashi, Genki; Yoshino, Kenji; Glover, Adrian G. (2019). Taxonomy and phylogeny of mud owls (Annelida: Sternaspidae), including a new synonymy and new records from the Southern Ocean, North East Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean: challenges in morphological delimitation. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> efirst: 1-39., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12526-019-00998-0
page(s): 18 of 39; note: To Sternaspis sendalli, which was described in the same article originally, & was from the same Discovery station [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 337 [details]
additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1930). Polychaete worms. <em>Discovery Reports, Cambridge.</em> 2: 1-222., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15904801
page(s): 178 [earlier record of holotype identified as S.scutata] [details]
source of synonymy Drennan, Regan; Wiklund, Helena; Rouse, Greg W.; Georgieva, Magdalena N.; Wu, Xuwen; Kobayashi, Genki; Yoshino, Kenji; Glover, Adrian G. (2019). Taxonomy and phylogeny of mud owls (Annelida: Sternaspidae), including a new synonymy and new records from the Southern Ocean, North East Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean: challenges in morphological delimitation. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> efirst: 1-39., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12526-019-00998-0
page(s): 18 of 39; note: To Sternaspis sendalli, which was described in the same article originally, & was from the same Discovery station [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype BMNH 1930.10.8.2372–2400R, verbatimGeounit Off Signy Is, South ... [details]
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Distribution South Orkneys and South Georgia islands, in 238–344 m depth [details]Etymology after C.C.A. Monro who studied the holotype specimen earlier. [details]
Synonymy Sternaspis monroi and S. sendalli holotypes were collected at the same ship station, namely Discovery 167, and described in the same article by Salazar-Vallejo (2014). Drennan et al (2019) synonymise the two names on the basis of overlap in natural variation in shield morphology and a lack of molecular evidence of more than one species in the geographic area. They state that there were "specimens with intermediate morphologies ... that could not be with confidence allocated to one species over the other." The names have equal priority. Drennan et al (2019) state "we prefer to use the name of a current researcher, Kelly Sendall, who participated in the revision of the family in 2013." [details]
Taxonomy Salazar-Vallejo (2014:339) "Sternaspis monroi n. sp. resembles S. princeps Selenka, 1885 from New Zealand because both have shields with continuous fans, with margin crenulated, not projecting posteriorly, and although ribs are distinct, concentric lines are hardly visible. These two species differ in the relative shape of each plate and in the distinctness of larger, diagonal ribs; in S. monroi n. sp. plates are wider than long and diagonal rib is indistinct, whereas in S. princeps plates are as long as wide, and diagonal rib is distinct." [details]
Type locality Off Signy Is, South Orkneys, Scotia Sea, R.V. Discovery Sta. 167, 60 50' 30"S, 46 15 00"W (-60.8417, -46.25), 244–344 m [details]
