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A new nemertean species: what are the useful characters for ribbon worm descriptions?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2013

Malin Strand ,
Alfonso Herrera-Bachiller ,
Arne Nygren  and
Tobias Kånneby
Malin Strand*
Affiliation:
Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences, Tjärnö, SE-452 96 Strömstad, Sweden
Alfonso Herrera-Bachiller
Affiliation:
EU–US Marine Biodiversity Research Group, Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Alcalá & Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
Arne Nygren
Affiliation:
Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Tobias Kånneby
Affiliation:
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: M. Strand, Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sven Lovén centre for Marine Sciences, Tjärnö, SE-452 96 Strömstad, Sweden email: [email protected]
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Abstract

In recent years the Norwegian Taxonomy Initiative started thorough investigations of poorly known organism groups. In this context, several marine inventories have rendered a number of marine invertebrate species new to science. Within the phylum Nemertea (ribbon worms) a characteristic hoplonemertean was encountered on two different occasions. We describe the new species Amphiporus rectangulus sp. nov. with a combination of histology and DNA data (COI). For the morphological description we use a previously proposed character matrix and, in a context given by the results, also provide a brief discussion on benefits and drawbacks with both methods. We argue that for small animals with soft bodies external characters can be more informative than hitherto expected.

Keywords

HoplonemerteaCOImt-DNAdescriptionmorphologycharacters
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 94 , Issue 2 , March 2014 , pp. 317 - 330
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2013 

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