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Neal, Lenka; Barnich, Ruth; Wiklund, Helena; Glover, Adrian G. 2012. A new genus and species of Polynoidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Pine Island Bay, Amundsen Sea, Southern Ocean — a region of high taxonomic novelty. Zootaxa *(3542): 80–88
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World Polychaeta Database (WPolyD)
We describe a new genus and species of polychaete worm (Polynoidae, Macellicephalinae) from a previously unsampled area of the Southern Ocean, Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea. Austropolaria n. gen. is differentiated from other genera in the subfamily Macellicephalinae by a combination of morphological characters such as the number of pharyngeal papillae, body segments, elytra, and position of ventral cirrus. The type species of this genus, Austropolaria magnicirrata n. sp., is described based on morphological characters, supplemented by molecular data.
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Austropolaria Neal, Barnich, Wiklund & Glover, 2012 accepted as Bathypolaria Levenstein, 1981 (original description)
Austropolaria magnicirrata Neal, Barnich, Wiklund & Glover, 2012 accepted as Bathypolaria magnicirrata (Neal, Barnich, Wiklund & Glover, 2012) (original description)
Austropolaria magnicirrata Neal, Barnich, Wiklund & Glover, 2012 accepted as Bathypolaria magnicirrata (Neal, Barnich, Wiklund & Glover, 2012) (original description)
Pine Island Bay for Austropolaria magnicirrata Neal, Barnich, Wiklund & Glover, 2012
Holotype BMNH NHM 2012.92, verbatimGeounit Pine Island Bay, Amu..., identified as Austropolaria magnicirrata Neal, Barnich, Wiklund & Glover, 2012
Ecology
Austropolaria magnicirrata n. gen. n. sp. is only known from Pine Island Bay in Amundsen Sea, where its ... [details]
Etymology
Austropolaria (Latin for southern pole) refers to the geographical area where the first representatives of the ... [details]
Etymology
magnicirrata (Latin for large cirrus) refers to the large dorsal cirri with prominent cirrophores. [details]
Type locality
Pine Island Bay, Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, 74.35865 S, 104.73444 W, -74.3586 , -104.7344 [details]
