First record and establishment of Branchiomma coheni (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) in the Atlantic Ocean and review of non – indigenous species of the genus
Author
Keppel, Erica
Author
Tovar, Maria Ana
Author
Ruiz, Gregory
text
Zootaxa
2015
4058
4
499
518
journal article
39241
10.11646/zootaxa.4058.4.3
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1175-5326
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Branchiomma
species
The
Branchiomma
species in WoRMS (2015) are not completely updated, in fact, its list reports 34 species but some are not valid names. After our review, we refine the list of
Branchiomma
to 29 confirmed species (
Table 2
), as some belong to other genera:
B. claparedei
is
Megalomma claparedei
Gravier, 1906
and a Lessepsian migrant species;
B. kumara
,
B. picta
and
B. serratibranchis
are
Pseudobranchiomma
according to
Knight-Jones (1994)
;
B. sanjuanense
is
Sabellastarte magnifica
(Shaw, 1800)
according to
Hartman (1956: pg. 299)
and
Jones (1962; pg. 201)
; and
B. violacea
is
Hypsicomus phaeotenia
(Schmarda, 1861)
according to Hartman (1965).