Clavodorum cf. longipes Fauchald, 1974

Gunton, Laetitia M., Kupriyanova, Elena K., Alvestad, Tom, Avery, Lynda, Blake, James A., Biriukova, Olga, Boeggemann, Markus, Borisova, Polina, Budaeva, Nataliya, Burghardt, Ingo, Capa, Maria, Georgieva, Magdalena N., Glasby, Christopher J., Hsueh, Pan-Wen, Hutchings, Pat, Jimi, Naoto, Kongsrud, Jon A., Langeneck, Joachim, Meissner, Karin, Murray, Anna, Nikolic, Mark, Paxton, Hannelore, Ramos, Dino, Schulze, Anja, Sobczyk, Robert, Watson, Charlotte, Wiklund, Helena, Wilson, Robin S., Zhadan, Anna & Zhang, Jinghuai, 2021, Annelids of the eastern Australian abyss collected by the 2017 RV ' Investigator' voyage, ZooKeys 1020, pp. 1-198 : 1

Clavodorum cf. longipes Fauchald, 1974 Fig. 30A-C

Diagnosis.

Body short and ovoid (~ 2 mm, 22 chaetigers), dorsum strongly convex. Head with seven appendages; palps and lateral antennae digitiform, ~ 6-7 × as long as wide, with two or three digitiform basal papillae each. Median antenna as long as paired appendages, without basal papillae. Tentacular cirri similar in shape to digitiform head additional papillae. Antenniform papillae absent. Macrotubercles stalked, smooth, without terminal papilla; arranged in more or less clear longitudinal rows, one transverse row per segment, with six macrotubercles each. Additional dorsal papillae absent. Ventrum with 4-6 papillae per segment, arranged in two longitudinal bands near the base of parapodia. Parapodia with conical ventral cirri, not surpassing the tip of acicular lobe; lacking parapodial papillae. All chaetae compound, with blades 5-9 × as long as wide in mid-body segments.

Records.

3 specimens. Suppl. material 1: ops. 42, 45 (AM).

Figures

Figure 30. Sphaerodoridae A-C Clavodorum cf. longipes D-G Sphaerephesia sp. nov. 1 (D, stained with methyl blue) H-J Sphaerephesia sp. nov. 3 K, L Sphaerephesia sp. nov. 5 M, N Sphaerodorum sp. Scale bars: 100 µm (A, B, D, E, I-M); 1 mm (G, H); 10 µm (C, N).