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Additions to the description, reproduction and systematic position of the enigmatic species Acritagasyllis longichaetosus Lucas, San Martín & Sikorski, 2010 (Annelida: Phyllodocida: Syllidae)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2015
Abstract
We present some additional information to Acritagasyllis longichaetosus Lucas, San Martín & Sikorski 2010, the only representative of an enigmatic genus of Syllidae from subpolar areas off Norway, based on two newly found specimens and one male and another female stolons. The armature of the pharynx was incorrectly interpreted in the original description, having in fact a trepan instead of a single pharyngeal tooth as originally described. The reproductive stolons are herein described for the first time. With this new information we performed a maximum parsimony phylogenetic analysis that placed this genus within the subfamily Autolytinae, despite its peculiar morphological characteristics. For this reason, we propose a new diagnosis to the genus Acritagasyllis as well as a modified diagnosis of the subfamily Autolytinae.
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 96 , Issue 8 , December 2016 , pp. 1709 - 1716
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- Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015
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