Diopatra brevicirris Grube, 1857

Paxton, Hannelore & Arias, Andres, 2017, Unveiling a surprising diversity of the genus Diopatra Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833 (Annelida: Onuphidae) in the Macaronesian region (eastern North Atlantic) with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4300 (4), pp. 505-535 : 531-532

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.4.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6557F0CC-1558-431F-81AB-A4D6191FCB15

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5492089

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DD0635-D625-FFE1-FF0F-FABBFD07FEC7

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scientific name

Diopatra brevicirris Grube, 1857
status

 

Diopatra brevicirris Grube, 1857 nomen dubium

Diopatra brevicirris Grube, 1857: 55 .— Grube 1878: 6.

Material examined. None available.

Type locality. Madeira.

Diagnosis. Antennae short, ceratophores 1/2 to 1/3 of total length, lateral antennae to segment 3 (?chaetiger 2), median slightly shorter. Peristomial cirri minute, papilla-like, not longer than 1/3 of ceratophores of palps. Dorsal cirri of parapodia very short, hardly longer than branchial stem thick. Branchiae from chaetiger 4, branchial stem very thick, filaments very short, hardly longer than width of branchial stem, third and fourth pairs longer than body width, almost 12 times as long as dorsal cirrus, last branchia from chaetiger 28.

Remarks. Diopatra brevicirris was described from Madeira on the basis of one incomplete specimen measuring 5 cm in length for 63 chaetigers and 3 mm in width, and remains the only record of this species. The species was characterised by having short antennae, minute peristomial cirri, short dorsal cirri and branchiae with very thick trunks, very short filaments. However, the branchial trunks were described as long, with branchiae 3 and 4 being longer than the width of the body. A later diagnosis ( Grube 1857) was slightly different, stating that the branchiae started on chaetiger 3 and consisted of more than 61 pairs, which contradicts the original description, making the later diagnosis unreliable. The brief original description does not fit with the characteristics of any of the species treated here ( Table 1) and it is considered as an abnormal or mutilated specimen and declared as a nomen dubium.

Diopatra brevicirris was described in the paper “ Annulata Örstediana ”, following the description of D. rhizophorae Grube, 1857 View in CoL . Whilst the types of D. rhizophorae View in CoL are held by the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen ( ZMUC) and have been studied by Paxton (1998), our search for the type specimen of D. brevicirris proved unsuccessful.

Distribution. Single record from Madeira.

ZMUC

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Eunicida

Family

Onuphidae

Genus

Diopatra

Loc

Diopatra brevicirris Grube, 1857

Paxton, Hannelore & Arias, Andres 2017
2017
Loc

Diopatra brevicirris

Grube 1878: 6
Grube 1857: 55
1857
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