De León-González, Jesus Ángel; Méndez, Nuria; Navedo, Juan Gómez. (2018). Laeonereis watsoni (Annelida, Nereididae), a new species from western Mexico. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 98(6): 1347-1353.

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10.1017/s0025315417000583 [view]

De León-González, Jesus Ángel; Méndez, Nuria; Navedo, Juan Gómez

2018

98(6): 1347-1353

Publication

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315417000583

World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb). First published online without Zoobank registration: 05 June 2017. Published with definitive volume number and pagination: September 2018.

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A new species of Laeonereis from a shrimp farm associated with a subtropical coastal lagoon on the Mexican Pacific coast is described. The new species is characterized by a deep anterior groove on the prostomium, which is shared only with L. culveri. However, longer tentacular cirri extending back to the anterior margin of chaetiger two, the number of papillae of each group on the maxillary ring of the pharynx, and the relative size of the homogomph falcigers in the new species, allow us to separate the two species. Although the species has not been previously detected in the coastal lagoon surrounding the shrimp farm, we postulate that L. watsoni n. sp. is likely to be part of the invertebrate communities of the upper parts of similar coastal lagoons that are common along the tropical coasts of Mexico.

Eastern Pacific warm temperate to tropical

Systematics, Taxonomy

Annelida
Polychaeta

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