A new species of Claviramus (Annelida, Sabellida, Sabellidae) from the Ariake Inland Sea, Kyushu, Japan

Eijiroh Nishi; Katsuhiko Tanaka; María Ana Tovar-Hernández

doi:10.3897/zookeys.880.36281

A new species of Claviramus (Annelida, Sabellida, Sabellidae) from the Ariake Inland Sea, Kyushu, Japan

Zookeys. 2019 Oct 14:880:25-32. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.880.36281. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Eijiroh Nishi¹, Katsuhiko Tanaka², María Ana Tovar-Hernández³

Affiliations

¹ College of Education, Yokohama National University, Hodogaya, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan Yokohama National University Hodogaya Japan.
² Department of Marine Biology, School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University, 3-20-1, Orido, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka 424-8610, Japan Tokai University Orido Japan.
³ Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Laboratorio de Biosistemática, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, México Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León San Nicolás de los Garza Mexico.

Abstract

A new species of the sabellid polychaete genus Claviramus Fitzhugh, 2002, is described from Ariake Inland Sea, Kyushu, Japan. Claviramus is a small genus, composed of three species worldwide. Its distinctive feature is the presence of foliaceous flanges at the distal ends of the radioles. Claviramus kyushuensis sp. nov. here described is characterized by the presence of a glandular ridge on chaetiger 2, glandular shields on the abdomen, thoracic uncini bidentate, and the presence of a short, distal filament in some radioles. A key and a comparative table of diagnostic characters for species of Claviramus are provided.

Keywords: Jasmineira; Polychaeta; fan worms; soft bottoms; taxonomy.

Eijiroh Nishi, Katsuhiko Tanaka, María Ana Tovar-Hernández.