WoRMS taxon details
original description
Pettibone, Marian H. 1984. A new scale-worm commensal with deep-sea mussels on the Galapagos hydrothermal vent (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 97(1): 226-239. page(s): 227 [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source
Bonifácio, Paulo; Menot, Lénaïck. (2018). New genera and species from the Equatorial Pacific provide phylogenetic insights into deep-sea Polynoidae (Annelida). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 185(3): 555-635 [published online 14 November 2018; printed publication 27 February 2019]., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/185/3/555/5181329 page(s): 22-23; note: assignment to Macellicephalinae [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Hatch, A. S.; Liew, H.; Hourdez, S.; Rouse, G. W. (2020). Hungry scale worms: Phylogenetics of Peinaleopolynoe (Polynoidae, Annelida), with four new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 932: 27-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.932.48532 page(s): 44-46; note: assignment to Lepidonotopodinae [details]
identification resource
Desbruyères, D., M. Segonzac & M. Bright (eds.). (2006). Handbook of Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna. Second Edition Denisia 18:1-544. (Copepods 316-355) (Polychaeta 183-296), available online at http://www.landesmuseum.at/datenbanken/digilit/?litnr=23702 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Body short, flattened, spindle-shaped, segments 21, first achaetous. Elytra and elytrophores, 10 pairs on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19. Dorsal cirri on non-elytra-bearing segments with short cirrophores and short styles. Dorsal tubercles on cirrigerous segments indistinct. Branchiae well developed, arborescent, on all parapodia from segment 2. Prostomium bilobed, subtriangular anterior lobes bearing minute frontal filaments; with short median antenna and pair of short palps; without lateral antennae and eyes. First or tentacular segment fused to prostomium, visible dorsally as short ring, achaetous; stout tentaculophores lateral to prostomium with 2 pairs of short tentacular cirri; without facial tubercle. Second or buccal segment with first pair of elytra and short ventral buccal cirri. Parapodia subbiramous. Notopodia small, with few short acicular notosetae. Neuropodia short, truncate, without projecting acicular lobes; with very numerous neurosetae including upper stout, slightly hooked ones separated by partition from very numerous slender ones. Ventral cirri short. Pygidium with pair of short anal cirri. Pharynx with 5 pairs of papillae and 2 pairs of jaws. Enlarged ventral papillae on segments 11 and 12. Commensal with mussels on deep-sea thermal vents [details]
Etymology Author: "Branchia, gills, plus polynoe, polynoid worm, (from genus Polynoe); referring to the characteristic gills on the polynoid worm" [details]
Grammatical gender feminine [details]Unverified
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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