Rhynchospio Hartman, 1936

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Rhynchospio Hartman, 1936

Rhynchospio Hartman 1936, p 51 .

Gender. Feminine.

Type species. Rhynchospio arenincola Hartman, 1936 . By monotypy.

List of Rhynchospio species (names and references are followed by the type localities of the species)

1. Rhynchospio arenincola Hartman 1936, p 51 , Figures 20–22. San Mateo County,

California, USA.

Malacoceros (Rhynchospio) arenincolus: Pettibone 1963, p 99 .

Rhynchospio arenincola asiatica Chlebovitsch, 1959, p 175 –176, Figure 6 (as Rhynchospio arenicola [sic] asiatica). Shikotan Island of South Kurile Islands, Russia.

Malacoceros (Rhynchospio) arenincolus asiaticus: Buzhinskaja 1985, p 127 , Figure 10A.

2. Rhynchospio australiana Blake and Kudenov 1978, p 200 –202, Figure 15. Perth,

West Australia, Australia.

3. Rhynchospio foliosa Imajima 1991, p 14 –17, Figures 6, 7. Usujiri Bay of Hokkaido

Island, Japan.

4. Rhynchospio glycera Blake and Kudenov 1978, p 199 –200, Figure 14. Burwood

Beach of New South Wales, Australia.

5. Rhynchospio glutaea ( Ehlers 1897) , p 83–85, Plate 5, Figures 129–132, Plate 6,

Figures 133–135, as Scolecolepis glutaea . Punta Arenas, Strait of Magellan, Chile. Malacoceros (Rhynchospio) glutaeus: Pettibone 1963, p 99 .

Microspio glutaea: Söderström 1920, p 252 .

6. Rhynchospio inflatus ( Foster 1971) , p 57–58, Figures 112–117, as Malacoceros

(Rhynchospio) inflatus . Bimini Islands of the Bahamas.

7. Rhynchospio nhatrangi sp. nov. Nha Trang Bay of South China Sea, southern Vietnam.

8. Rhynchospio tuberculata Imajima 1991, p 12 –14, Figure 5 . Sagami Bay of Honshu

Island, Japan.

Figures

Figure 5. Rhynchospio nhatrangi sp. nov. sperm and larval morphology. (A) Spermatozoon with spiral acrosome (ac) 35 Mm long, nucleus (nu) 10 Mm, spiral middlepiece (mp) ca 200 Mm long, and flagellum (fl) 35–60 Mm long; (B) four-chaetiger larva escaped from hatchery on dorsal side of parent segments, dorsal view, showing unpigmented ocelli (oc), small bosses (bo) with fine non-motile cilia within nuchal ciliary patches, and large glandular cells (gc) with striated content in the pygidium; (C) same, ventral view, showing lateral (lp) and ventral (vp) parts of prototroch, metatroch (me), ventral ciliated pit (cp) on chaetiger 2, gastrotroch on chaetiger 3, telotroch, and one pair of protonephridia (pn) in chaetiger 1.