A new species of Exogone (Syllidae: Exogoninae) from off the state of São Paulo

Marcelo Veronesi Fukuda and João Miguel De Matos Nogueira

Memoirs of Museum Victoria Vol 71 p. 79–84 (2014)

DOI
http://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2014.71.08

Abstract

We describe a new species of Exogone Örsted, 1845 (Syllidae: Exogoninae) found in dense populations in some areas off the State of São Paulo (south-east Brazil). Exogone cebimar sp. nov. has an enlarged median antenna, dorsal cirri present on all chaetigers, a triangular process on each of the shafts of spiniger-like chaetae of segments 1 and 2, and a short proventricle, extending for two segments only. This new species is one of the subjects of ongoing studies dealing with the characterisation of brooding methods found in the subfamily Exogoninae.

Citation

Fukuda, M.V. & Nogueira, J.M.D.M., 2014. A new species of Exogone (Syllidae: Exogoninae) from off the state of São Paulo. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 71: 79-84. http://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2014.71.08

PUBLICATION DATE: 17 December 2014

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