WoRMS taxon details
original description
Darbyshire, Teresa; Brewin, Paul E. (2015). Three new species of <em>Dysponetus</em> Levinsen, 1879 (Polychaeta: Chrysopetalidae) from the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean, with a re-description of <em>Dysponetus</em> <em>bulbosus </em>Hartmann-Schröder, 1982. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4040(3): 359-370., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4040.3.7 page(s): 365 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype NMW NMW.Z.2015.008.0001, geounit South Georgia [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis authors: "Dysponetus bricklei n. sp. is similar to D. bipapillatus, D. bidentatus, D. bulbosus, D. joeli, D. macroculatus, D. ovalisetosus n. sp. & D. populonectens in having the combination of the following characters: 4 large eyes, elongated palps and ventral cirri absent on segment 3. The remaining species all have either 0 or 2 eyes, except for D. antarcticus which has 4 eyes but has a ventral cirrus on segment 3. Using SEM, D. bricklei can be separated from all of the above, except for D. bidentatus and D. macroculatus (for which the character is undocumented), and D. ovalisetosus on the shape of the notochaetae which are oval in D. bricklei but D-shaped in all of the rest" [details]
Etymology named after Dr Paul Brickle, co-founder of the Shallow Marine
Surveys Group [details]
Type locality Cooper Bay, South Georgia, South Atlantic -54.7844 -35.8090, 5-10 m [details]
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