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Octomagelona bizkaiensis (Polychaeta: Magelonidae) a new genus and species from the Capbreton Canyon (Bay of Biscay, north-east Atlantic)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2001

Florencio Aguirrezabalaga ,
Argiloa Ceberio  and
Dieter Fiege
Florencio Aguirrezabalaga
Affiliation:
Sociedad Cultural de Investigación Submarina, INSUB, C/ Zemoria, Apartado 3223, 20013 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Argiloa Ceberio
Affiliation:
Sociedad Cultural de Investigación Submarina, INSUB, C/ Zemoria, Apartado 3223, 20013 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Dieter Fiege
Affiliation:
Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt, Germany
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Abstract

Octomagelona bizkaiensis (Annelida: Polychaeta), a new genus and species of the family Magelonidae is described from the north-eastern Atlantic. The specimens were collected from the Capbreton Canyon, Bay of Biscay, at a depth of 1000–1040 m. The new genus and species differs from all known genera and species of the family Magelonidae by the presence of eight instead of nine thoracic chaetigers.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 81 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 221 - 224
Copyright
2001 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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