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A new species of Branchiomaldane (Polychaeta: Arenicolidae) from the State of São Paulo, south-eastern Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2001

João Miguel de Matos Nogueira
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas—UNICAMP, CP 6109, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Alexandra Elaine Rizzo
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas—UNICAMP, CP 6109, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Abstract

A new species of Branchiomaldane was identified in a collection of polychaetes living in colonies of a stony coral. Branchiomaldane maryae sp. nov. differs from all other species of the genus by the presence of lensed eyes and 1–3 branchial filaments per parapodium. Comparisons between B. maryae sp. nov. and the other species of the genus are provided, together with some phylogenetic considerations on the position of the genus.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2001 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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