Aphrodita goolmarris Hutchings & McRae, 1993

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

Aphrodita goolmarris Hutchings & McRae, 1993 Fig. 6C

Diagnosis.

Large-bodied specimens, body shape ovate, length less than twice maximum width. Thin dorsal felt of fine notochaetae covering elytra; 15 pairs elytra, elytral surface with micropapillae. Prostomium rounded, without ocular peduncles, with raised ocular areas, pigment absent; facial tubercle well-developed, inflated, with small papillae. Palps extending to segment 11 with minutely papillated margins. Median antenna rod-shaped, fifth length of prostomium. Notochaetae of three kinds: capillary chaetae forming matted dorsal felt; stout, golden-brown, smooth chaetae curving over dorsum; and lateral short tuft of faintly iridescent capillary notochaetae, not forming a fringe. Neuropodia with three tiers of chaetae: stout, superior tier with two stout dark, pilose-tipped acicular neurochaetae, middle tier with 4-9 similar chaetae, inferior tier with 8-15 similar chaetae. Some anterior segments with non-pilose acicular neurochaetae with smooth margins and tips. Numerous golden-yellow, bipinnate neurochaetae present in chaetigers 2 and 3 in inferior position.

Remarks.

This species is recorded from Western Australia (WA), New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland (QLD) (Cape York) in depths of 353-3058 m ( Hutchings and McRae 1993). It has also been recently collected from the GAB voyages ( MacIntosh et al. 2018: additional file 2).

Records.

4 specimens. Suppl. material 1: ops. 4, 14, 67 (AM).

Figures

Figure 6. Aphroditidae A Aphrodita cf. talpa (NMV F. 293294) dorsal view B Aphrodita cf. talpa (AM W. 49509) lateral view C Aphrodita goolmarris (AM W. 52604) dorsal view D Laetmonice yarramba dorsal view (AM W. 49499) E Laetmonice yarramba ventral view (AM W. 49500). Scale bars: 1 mm (C); 5 mm (A, B, D, E).