Thysanocardia cf. catharinae (Grube, 1868)

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

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1020.57921
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CC23B8CE-8C8E-473C-BD8C-44E74252A33D
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C9DAC13F-E41B-6460-69AA-BE3E5039A808
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scientific name	Thysanocardia cf. catharinae (Grube, 1868)
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Treatment

Diagnosis.

Up to 70 mm trunk length. Complex tentacular arrangement in ‘festoons’ (double rows extending along the distal introvert) and around the nuchal organ. Tentacles arranged in 14-16 festoons, each with <40 tentacles.

Remarks.

This is the first record of this genus from Australian waters.

Records.

9 specimens. Suppl. material 1: ops. 80, 104 (AM).