Fan worms (Annelida: Sabellidae) from Indonesia collected by the Snellius II Expedition (1984) with descriptions of three new species and tube microstructure

María Ana Tovar-Hernández; Harry A Ten Hove; Olev Vinn; Michał Zatoń; Jesús Angel de León-González; María Elena García-Garza

doi:10.7717/peerj.9692

Fan worms (Annelida: Sabellidae) from Indonesia collected by the Snellius II Expedition (1984) with descriptions of three new species and tube microstructure

PeerJ. 2020 Aug 18:8:e9692. doi: 10.7717/peerj.9692. eCollection 2020.

Authors

María Ana Tovar-Hernández¹, Harry A Ten Hove², Olev Vinn³, Michał Zatoń⁴, Jesús Angel de León-González¹, María Elena García-Garza¹

Affiliations

¹ Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Laboratorio de Biosistemática, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico.
² Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
³ Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁴ Institute of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland.

Abstract

The Indonesian archipelago is one of the most diverse regions in the marine World. Many contributions on polychaete worms have been published since the Dutch Siboga Expedition to the Indonesian archipelago at the end of the 19th century. In this study, we examined specimens of Sabellidae Latreille, 1825 collected during the Snellius II Expedition (1984) to Indonesia, carried out by the Dutch Research Vessel (RV) "Tyro" and the Indonesian RV "Samudera". The results include reports of Acromegalomma acrophthalmos, A. interruptum, A. sp., Bispira manicata, B. porifera, B. secusoluta, Branchiomma boholense, Notaulax pyrrohogaster, N. tenuitorques, N. sp. 3, Parasabella crassichaetae, Perkinsiana anodina, and Sabellastarte spectabilis. In addition, three new species are described: Acromegalomma sumbense sp. nov., Claviramus olivager sp. nov., and Notaulax montiporicola sp. nov., the latter in living coral (Montipora nodosa). Further, Sabella (Potamilla) polyophthalmos Grube is transferred to Pseudopotamilla. Additional histological accounts of B. porifera and tube microstructure of A. acrophthalmos, B. porifera, P. anodina, Pseudopotamilla polyophthalmos and Sabellastarte spectabilis are also included.

Keywords: Feather duster worms; Indonesian archipelago; Polychaeta; Tube microstructure.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Estonian Research Council (project IUT20-34) to Olev Vinn, and institutional funds of María Ana Tovar-Hernández, Jesús Angel de León-González and María Elena García-Garza. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.