Perinereis aibuhitensis (Grube, 1878)

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.3.4
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8257315
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scientific name	Perinereis aibuhitensis
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Perinereis View in CoL subgroup 2A: Hutchings et al., 1991: 271–273 (partim).

‘ Perinereis aibuhitensis View in CoL ’ species group: Villalobos-Guerrero et al. 2021: 284–285.

Remarks. ‘ Perinereis aibuhitensis ’ species group was proposed by Villalobos-Guerrero et al. (2021b) and, with the new species described herein, consists of 12 species: Perinereis aibuhitensis ( Grube, 1878) , P. babuzai ( Hsueh, 2019) , P. belawanensis ( Pflugfelder, 1933) , P. brevicirrata ( Treadwell, 1920) , P. khambhatiensis n. sp., P.kinmenensis ( Hsueh, 2019) , P. linea ( Treadwell, 1936) , P. rookery de León-González & Goethel, 2013 , P. shigungensis ( Hsueh, 2019) , P. singaporiensis ( Grube, 1878) , P. vancaurica ( Ehlers, 1868) , and P. vitabunda ( Pflugfelder, 1933) . These species are featured by having area VI with two bar-shaped (mostly broad-petite bars, sometimes smooth-bars) paragnaths, dorsal ligules not greatly expanded in posterior parapodia, dorsal cirri short, and heterogomph falcigers with blade straight and consisting of a markedly elongated incurved tooth. Villalobos-Guerrero et al. (2021b) also provided an identification key to species within the Group 2. The key is modified here to restrict it only to those species belonging to the ‘ aibuhitensis ’ group and updated to include the newly described species. Perinereis brevicirrata from Santos ( Brazil) is excluded from the key because its morphology is incompletely known and poorly illustrated.