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Pettibone, Marian H. (1957). Endoparasitic polychaetous annelids of the family Arabellidae with descriptions of new species. The Biological Bulletin. 113(1): 170-187.
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Pettibone, Marian H.
1957
Endoparasitic polychaetous annelids of the family Arabellidae with descriptions of new species
The Biological Bulletin
113(1): 170-187
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
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Among the polychaetes, which for the most part are free-living, crawling, burrowing, and tube-dwelling, commensalism is rather common but internal parasitism is rare indeed. Among the relatively few cases that have been reported are some lumbrinerid-like polychaetes belonging to the superfamily Eunicea, which includes the families Eunicidae, Onuphidae, Lumbrineridae, Arabellidae, Lysaretidae, and Dorvilleidae (sometimes considered as subfamilies belonging to the family Eunicidae). Some of the parasitic euniceans invade other members of the same superfamily and may attain an enormous size in proportion to the host. All of the known lumbrinerid-like parasites belong to, or show affinities to, the family Arabellidae as defined by Hartman (1944).
In connection with a study of polychaete material from various sources, including that in the United States National Museum, some arabellids were found living as endoparasites in other polychaetes of the related family Onuphidae. Two new species are described herein, the types of which are deposited in the United States National Museum. Some small specimens of a third species, living parasitically in the onuphid, Diopatra, are thought to be the young stages of the arabellid, Notocirrus spiniferus (Moore). Since this interesting type of parasitism is not widely known and has not received the attention it no doubt deserves, the relatively few known cases of lumbrinerid-like species living in other polychaetes and echiuroids are reviewed and the chief characteristics of the Eunicea and Arabellidae to which the parasites belong are summarized.
Among the polychaetes, which for the most part are free-living, crawling, burrowing, and tube-dwelling, commensalism is rather common but internal parasitism is rare indeed. Among the relatively few cases that have been reported are some lumbrinerid-like polychaetes belonging to the superfamily Eunicea, which includes the families Eunicidae, Onuphidae, Lumbrineridae, Arabellidae, Lysaretidae, and Dorvilleidae (sometimes considered as subfamilies belonging to the family Eunicidae). Some of the parasitic euniceans invade other members of the same superfamily and may attain an enormous size in proportion to the host. All of the known lumbrinerid-like parasites belong to, or show affinities to, the family Arabellidae as defined by Hartman (1944).
In connection with a study of polychaete material from various sources, including that in the United States National Museum, some arabellids were found living as endoparasites in other polychaetes of the related family Onuphidae. Two new species are described herein, the types of which are deposited in the United States National Museum. Some small specimens of a third species, living parasitically in the onuphid, Diopatra, are thought to be the young stages of the arabellid, Notocirrus spiniferus (Moore). Since this interesting type of parasitism is not widely known and has not received the attention it no doubt deserves, the relatively few known cases of lumbrinerid-like species living in other polychaetes and echiuroids are reviewed and the chief characteristics of the Eunicea and Arabellidae to which the parasites belong are summarized.
Parasites, Parasitism
Systematics, Taxonomy
Systematics, Taxonomy
Drilonereis caulleryi Pettibone, 1957 (original description)
