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Kirkegaard, J. B. (1996). Bathyal and Abyssal Polychaetes (sedentary species I). Galathea Report. 17: 57-77.
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Kirkegaard, J. B.
1996
Bathyal and Abyssal Polychaetes (sedentary species I)
Galathea Report
17: 57-77
Publication
Publication date: 15 December 1996 (fide Galathea Report web page http://www.zmuc.dk/inverweb/galathea/Galathea_p5.html )
The present paper describes 28 species from nine sedentary families of polychaetes obtained by the Galathea Expedition 1950-52. These families are:
Orbiniidae, Paraonidae, Magelonidae, Flabelligeridae, Scalibregmatidae, Opheliidae, Sternaspidae, Sabellariidae, and Pectinariidae. Two species,
Therochaeta antoni and Asclerocheilus tasmanius, are new to science. Sixteen of the species were obtained from the abyssal zone, and twelve of these were also recorded from the bathyal and littoral zones. The known distribution of many of the species is extended. Some well known species from the North Atlantic, i.e., Ammotrypanella arctica and Ophelina aulogastrella, were recorded from areas around New Zealand. This can probably be explained by a newly described, deep salty current from the North Atlantic through the Indian Ocean to the Pacific.
Abyssal, Deep-Sea
Bathyal, Continental slope
Systematics, Taxonomy
Bathyal, Continental slope
Systematics, Taxonomy
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Ammotrypanella arctica (McIntosh in Jeffreys, 1876) (additional source)
Asclerocheilus tasmanius Kirkegaard, 1996 accepted as Oligobregma tasmania (Kirkegaard, 1996) (original description)
Polychaeta (identification resource)
Therochaeta antoni Kirkegaard, 1996 accepted as Paratherochaeta antoni (Kirkegaard, 1996) (original description)
Asclerocheilus tasmanius Kirkegaard, 1996 accepted as Oligobregma tasmania (Kirkegaard, 1996) (original description)
Polychaeta (identification resource)
Therochaeta antoni Kirkegaard, 1996 accepted as Paratherochaeta antoni (Kirkegaard, 1996) (original description)
Holotype ZMUC POL-853, geounit Tasman Sea, identified as Asclerocheilus tasmanius Kirkegaard, 1996
Paratype ZMUC POL-866, geounit Tasman Sea, identified as Asclerocheilus tasmanius Kirkegaard, 1996
Paratype ZMUC POL-866, geounit Tasman Sea, identified as Asclerocheilus tasmanius Kirkegaard, 1996
Paratype ZMUC POL-866, geounit Tasman Sea, identified as Asclerocheilus tasmanius Kirkegaard, 1996
Paratype ZMUC POL-866, geounit Tasman Sea, identified as Asclerocheilus tasmanius Kirkegaard, 1996
Etymology
The specific epithet tasmanicus refers to the type locality of the species, the Tasman Sea. [details]
