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Jirkov, Igor A. (2020). Review of the European Amphitrite (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) with description of two new species. Invertebrate Zoology. 17(4): 311-360.
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10.15298/invertzool.17.4.01 [view]
Jirkov, Igor A.
2020
Review of the European Amphitrite (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) with description of two new species
Invertebrate Zoology
17(4): 311-360
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
Taxonomy of six terebellids genera is discussed. It is shown that Amphitritides, Neoamphitrite and Paramphitrite are junior synonyms of Amphitrite; the difference between Amphitrite, Terebella and Eupolymnia is illustrated. The review of a substantial number of specimens of 10 species of Amphitrite known from European waters has allowed for amendments of species descriptions and updates of species distributions. Two new species are described: A. rzhavskyi sp.n. from the Mediterranean Sea and Scotland, UK and A. buzhinskaje sp.n. from the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea. A. rzhavskyi sp.n. has three pairs of branchiae with cirriform filaments, 17 thoracic chaetigers, four pairs of nephridia and no eyespots. A. buzhinskaje sp.n. has three pairs of arborescent branchiae, 22–23 thoracic chaetigers and all abdominal neuropodia with a single row of uncini. It is proposed to accept A. antarctica Monro, 1936 as species rather than subspecies of A. affinis. One more species from the Arctic and North Pacific is found but not named due the lack of type materials of A. cirrata, the most similar species. The taxonomic weight of characters used for species definitions within Amphitrite is discussed. It is shown that species range is a good taxonomic character. A comprehensive identification key to all 14 European species of Amphitrite is provided.
Systematics, Taxonomy
Amphitrite Müller, 1771 (identification resource)
Amphitrite cirrata Müller, 1776 (taxonomy source) Neoamphitrite Hessle, 1917 (status source) Distribution Author: "upper sublittoral from northern Scotland to the Mediterranean" [details] Etymology Named after polychaetologist Dr. Galina Nikolaevna Buzhinskaja [details] Etymology Named after the late Dr. Alexandr Rzhavsky, polychaetologist taxonomist, especially for Spirorbinae, and former ... [details] Status Jirkov (2020: 315, 332, 347) places Terebella gracilis Grube as an Amphitrite, thus rendering Amphitritides as a ... [details] Status Alternate representation as Amphitrite grayi as the combination in Neoamphitrite is not recognized as valid by ... [details] Status Jirkov (2020: 348) suggests Amphitrite lobocephala is Lanice-like and should be transferred to Axionice, the genus ... [details] Status Jirkov (2020: 338) records Mediterranean specimens, and accepts Amphitrite rubra as an Amphitrite, and comments on ... [details] Status Nogueira & Hutchings (2007: 3) state that "Amphitritides is close to Neoleprea Hessle, 1917 and Tyira Hutchings, ... [details] Status Arvanitidis & Koukouras (1995) according to "generic definitions given by Holthe ..." suggest the transfer of ... [details] Status Recognized as Neoamphitrite edwardsii (using 'edwardsi' spelling) by Choi et al (2020), but not by Jirkov (2020), ... [details] Status Moved to Amphitrite in the past, but the original description makes it dubiously a member of the that genus ... [details] Synonymy Jirkov (2020: 340) confirms that the synonyms of A. rubra likely include Terebella multisetosa Grube, 1838, ... [details] Synonymy The usage of some authors (eg Hutchings & Glasby 1988; Jirkov, 2001, Jirkov, 2020) is that Neoamphitrite Hessle, 1917, ... [details] Synonymy May be a junior synonym of Paramphitrite birulai (Ssolowiew, 1899) according to Jirkov (2001: 519). Subsequently ... [details] Type locality Posyet Bay, Sea of Japan, 42.6, 131.15° (42°36′N 131°09′E), 2 m [details] Type locality Uncertain type locality, but possibly Iceland. Amphitrite cirrata is based on earlier names, rather than being a ... [details] Type locality Coast near Melilla, Morocco, Mediterranean coast, 35.1831, -2.4286 (printed in Jirkov as 35° 10' 59" N, 2° 25' ... [details] Type species The designation of type species is confused. Amphitrite cirrata is regarded as the type species, but strictly it ... [details] |