To name but a few: descriptions of five new species of Terebellides (Annelida, Trichobranchidae) from the North East Atlantic.

ABSTRACT: The number of described species of the genus Terebellides Sars, 1835 (Annelida, Trichobranchidae) has greatly increased in the last years, particularly in the North East Atlantic. In this context, this paper deals with several putative species recently delineated by molecular means within a well delimited clade of Terebellides. Species are characterised here by a combination of morphological characters, and a complementary nucleotide diagnostic approach. Three species were identified as the nominal species T. stroemii Sars, 1835, T. bigeniculatus Parapar, Moreira & Helgason, 2011 and T. europaeaLavesque et al., 2019. Five species are described as new: T. bakkeni sp. nov., T. kongsrudi sp. nov., T. norvegica sp. nov

SUBMITTER: Parapar J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7677295 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature