Sphaerodoropsis Hartman & Fauchald, 1971

Aguado, M. Teresa & Rouse, Greg W., 2006, First record of Sphaerodoridae (Phyllodocida: Annelida) from hydrothermal vents, Zootaxa 1383, pp. 1-21 : 3

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6261225
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scientific name	Sphaerodoropsis Hartman & Fauchald, 1971
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Generic diagnosis (modified from Borowski 1994). Four or more rows of dorsal and sessile macrotubercles without terminal papillae. Anterior end with a median antennae and a pair of lateral antennae. A pair of ventral palps, similar to antennae is present. A pair of papillae similar in length to antennae and palps may also be present. Chaetae compound. Type species Sphaerodoropsis sphaerulifer ( Moore, 1909) .

Remarks: Borowski (1994) made no differentiation between palps and antennae in sphaerodorids and indeed they are very similar. However, Rouse & Fauchald (1997) and Pleijel (2001) distinguished them to facilitate comparison with other Phyllodocida . Borowski (1994) stated that Sphaerodoropsis could have an additional pair of antennae but this would make them unique among Phyllodocida so it seems more reasonable to interpret them as elongate papillae (see Discussion). The interpretation of the prostomium, peristomium and anterior segments in the description below follows Pleijel (2001).

References

Borowski, C. (1994) Three new deep-sea species of Sphaerodoridae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the eastern tropical South Pacific. Zoologica Scripta, 3, 193 - 203.

Hartman, O. & Fauchald, K. (1971) Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology, 6, 1 - 327.

Moore, J. P. (1909). The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U. S. S. Albatross of the coast of southern California in 1904. I: Syllidae. Sphaerodoridae. Hesionidae and Phyllodocidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, 61, 321 - 351.

Pleijel, F. (2001) Sphaerodoridae Malmgren, 1867. In: Rouse, G. W. & Pleijel, F. (Eds.), Polychaetes. Oxford University Press, pp. 136 - 138.