A new species of Lumbrineriopsis (Annelida, Eunicida, Lumbrineridae) from southeastern Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Lumbrineriopsisdulcissp. nov. is morphologically described from the continental shelf and slope of Espírito Santo and the Campos Basin of Rio de Janeiro state, southeastern Brazil, at depths between 14 and 400 m. Lumbrineriopsismucronata is the only species of the genus recorded until now in Brazil. The new species differs from other congeneric species in its jaw-apparatus morphology with unfused mandibles and a fixed number of simple limbate chaetae and simple, bidentate, hooded hooks in each parapodium. This paper aims to fill the gap in knowledge on the family Lumbrineridae, which has not been studied in Brazil for the last 25 years and provides the first record of the genus from Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro states. This record is significant given the damage t

SUBMITTER: Scamparle Teodoro NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10432938 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature