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Hookabe, Natsumi; Yamamori, Luna; Ogawa, Akito; Jimi, Naoto; Kohtsuka, Hisanori & Rouse, Greg W. (2025). An updated phylogeny of Iphitime (Annelida: Dorvilleidae) revealing multiple host switching, with description of I. nubila sp. nov. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204(4):.
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10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf101 [view]
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8F472388-4B75-4F6F-A8B9-EE25B69CAFAC [view]
Hookabe, Natsumi; Yamamori, Luna; Ogawa, Akito; Jimi, Naoto; Kohtsuka, Hisanori & Rouse, Greg W.
2025
An updated phylogeny of <i>Iphitime</i> (Annelida: Dorvilleidae) revealing multiple host switching, with description of <i>I. nubila</i> sp. nov
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
204(4):
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This study provides an updated molecular phylogeny of Iphitime Marenzeller, 1902 (Annelida: Dorvilleidae), a group of symbiotic dorvilleid polychaetes, including a topotypic specimen of the type species, Iphitime doederleini Marenzeller, 1902. Also, a new species, Iphitime nubila sp. nov., was found associated with hermit crab hosts during a faunal survey off Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan, and is described here. Specimens of Iphitime were also found from southern California that were from the gill chambers of two different hosts of brachyuran crabs and are referrable to Iphitime loxorhynchi Hartman, 1952. The study includes morphological descriptions, ecological observations, molecular phylogenetic analyses, and ancestral state reconstruction highlighting at least two independent host switching in Iphitime. Additionally, we present the first mitochondrial genome for Iphitime, comparing its protein-coding gene order with Ophryotrocha Claparède & Mecznikow, 1869 and Veneriserva Rossi, 1984, revealing a conserved gene order within the Iphitime + Veneriserva clade. The conserved order between these two symbiotic genera contrasts with the high variation observed among several dorvilleid species.
Japan
Molecular systematics, Molecular biology
Systematics, Taxonomy
Systematics, Taxonomy
Iphitime doederleini Marenzeller, 1902 (taxonomy source)
Iphitime nubila Hookabe, Yamamori et al. 2025 (original description)
Iphitime nubila Hookabe, Yamamori et al. 2025 (original description)
Japanese unryû-mino-isome for Iphitime nubila Hookabe, Yamamori et al. 2025
Classification
Iphitime genus is placed under the family Dorvilleidae Chamberlin, 1919 by Dauvin et al. (2003) and others. The ... [details]
Diagnosis
Prostomium with two antennae protruding forward. Branchiae cirriform without branching, present from chaetiger 1, ... [details]
Etymology
Iphitime nubila is named (authors say) "from the Latin word for ‘cloudy’ or ‘foggy’, inspired by the Cloud ... [details]
Type locality
Holotype NSMT-Pol H-986, female, from Dardanus crassimanus crab within a shell of Tutufa bufo, collected in a net ... [details]
Type material
Hookabe et al (2025) do not comment on the existence or whereabouts of a type of Iphitime doederleini. They do say ... [details]
