Hsieh, Hwey-Lian. (1992). Pseudopolydora diopatra, a new species (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Taiwan. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 105(3): 630-635.

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Hsieh, Hwey-Lian

1992

105(3): 630-635

Publication

https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35607809

World Polychaeta Database (WPolyD)

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A new spionid polychaete species is described from a sandflat on the west coast of Taiwan. Pseudopolydora diopatra lives on the tube-caps of the onuphid Diopatra bilobata. The species is very similar to Pseudopolydora paucibranchiata. Both species are small in size (3-6 mm), have similar setal types on the fifth setiger, and a cup-shaped pygidium. The new species differs from the latter in lacking median antenna, in having fewer pairs of branchiae (5-6 pairs vs. 9-1 1 pairs), and fewer major setae (4-5 hooks and 6-8 pennoned setae vs. 8-9 hooks and 10 pennoned setae) on setiger 5.

Taiwan

Systematics, Taxonomy

Annelida
Polychaeta

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