Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Costa, Dimítri De Araújo; Rocha, Sónia; Martins, Duarte; Venâncio, Márcia; Ureña, Marta; Almeida, João; Ferreira, Gilmax Gonçalves; Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey; Antunes, Carlos. (2025). Filling in another piece of the puzzle: Using Integrative Taxonomy to establish yet another new species of Hediste (Annelida, Polychaeta, Nereididae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5696(1): 28-40., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5696.1.2 page(s): 31-33, figs 1-6 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype NatMIP-APPh-0019, Natural History Museum of the Iberian Peninsula, geounit Mediterranean Sea [details]
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Etymology the species name alludes to the simple chaetae present in almost all Hediste species; it is derived from the Latin words sine meaning “without” and simplex meaning “simple”. This species lacks fused “simple” chaetae [details]
Taxonomy Hediste sinesimplex Costa et al 2025 is an exception to the long established principal diagnostic character of the genus Hediste, as it is lacking simple chaetae, but molecular data places the species in the genus [details]
Type locality on muddy bottom intertidal, Port of Livorno, Darsena Pisana area, Pisa, Italy, 43.6994 N, 10.3841 E (43º41’57.89”N, 10º23’02.63”E) [details]
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