Mazurkiewicz, Mikołaj; Gromisz, Sławomira; Legeżyńska, Joanna; Włodarska-Kowalczuk, Maria. (2017). First records of Lacydonia eliasoni Hartmann-Schröder, 1996 (Polychaeta: Phyllodocida) in the European Arctic. Polish Polar Research. 38(2): 175-185.

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10.1515/popore-2017-0011 [view]

Mazurkiewicz, Mikołaj; Gromisz, Sławomira; Legeżyńska, Joanna; Włodarska-Kowalczuk, Maria

2017

38(2): 175-185

Publication

https://doi.org/10.1515/popore-2017-0011

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Lacydonia (Polychaeta: Phyllodocida) is a poorly known genus containing 16 species that are sporadically collected in low densities all over the world oceans. During three cruises (in June 2014 in Ullsfjorden, northern Norway, in January 2015 in Kongsfjorden, and in June 2012 in Smeerenburg, Svalbard) nine specimens of Lacydonia eliasoni were found on sandy and muddy sediments at depths from 180 to 350 m. All specimens were incomplete and consisted of 10 to 29 chaetigers. This study presents the first record of the Lacydonia genus in the waters of Svalbard as well as the first record of L. eliasoni in coastal waters off northern Norway. This species has been reported previously in the Skagerrak and Trondheimsfjorden (southern Norway), our findings therefore may indicate a northward extension of its range, possibly due to climate changes.

Arctic Basin in general
Cold North Atlantic and Arctic together
Norway

Systematics, Taxonomy

Annelida
Polychaeta

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