Systematic and ecological characteristics of Paralvinella sulfincola Desbruyères and Laubier, a new polychaete (family Alvinellidae) from northeast Pacific hydrothermal vents

1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Tunnicliffe ◽  
Daniel Desbruyères ◽  
Didier Jollivet ◽  
Lucien Laubier

Polychaetes of the family Alvinellidae (Terrebellida) are endemic to hydrothermal vent communities. A new species from the Juan de Fuca and Gorda ridges in the Northeast Pacific is described; aspects of its buccal appendages, segment number, and uncini placement are unique. Because of initial confusion with a sympatric species, Paralvinella palmiformis Desbruyères and Laubier, protein mobilities were examined to differentiate the species electrophoretically with reference to a third alvinellid, Alvinella pompejana. Among the 17 loci scored, fewer than a quarter of the alleles were present in the two Paralvinella species; Paralvinella sulfincola n.sp. has several diagnostic allozymes. This new species inhabits tubes on the sides of active smoker chimneys and migrates upward as the chimney grows. Individuals are recorded within 1 cm of hydrothermal fluids at temperatures in excess of 300 °C; the species appears to have several molecular adaptations to high ambient temperatures. The Alvinellidae form a fascinating group within which to study phylogenetic and selective processes.

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 699-714
Author(s):  
Jong Guk Kim ◽  
Jimin Lee

The genus Smacigastes Ivanenko & Defaye, 2004 (Harpacticoida, Copepoda) is the most primitive genus in the family Tegastidae Sars, 1904, occurring in deep-sea chemosynthetic environments, such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, whale falls and wood falls. Our exploration of the Onnuri Vent Field, the sixth active hydrothermal vent system in the Central Indian Ridge, resulted in the discovery of a new species in the genus Smacigastes. A detailed morphological analysis of S. pumilasp. nov. reveals that it most resembles S. barti Gollner, Ivanenko & Martínez Arbizu, 2008, described from a hydrothermal vent in the East Pacific Ridge; the new species can be distinguished from the existing species by the 8-segmented female antennule, the absence of an abexopodal seta on the antennary basis, the mandibular exopod represented by a single seta and the exopod of the first leg with five setae. This is the first record of Smacigastes in the Indian Ocean. A dichotomous key to species of the genus Smacigastes worldwide is provided.


1964 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 933-939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Rosenblatt

A new species, Pholis clemensi, referred to the family Pholidae, is named and described from 12 specimens taken in southern British Columbia waters and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Pholis clemensi is compared with other members of the genus, and a key is given to the North American species.


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4441 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAULO BONIFÁCIO ◽  
YANN LELIÈVRE ◽  
EMMANUELLE OMNES

Hesionids are a very speciose group of polychaetes. In the deep sea, they occur in different environments such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, abyssal depths or whale falls. In the present study, a new species of Hesionidae, Hesiospina legendrei sp. nov. has been identified based on morphological and molecular (16S and COI genes) data from hydrothermal vents located in Juan de Fuca Ridge (NE Pacific Ocean). This new species is characterized by trapezoid prostomium; proboscis with high number of distal papillae (20–27), a pair of sac-like structures inserted ventro-laterally in proboscis; notopodia lobe reduced with multiple, slender aciculae on segments 1–5; and neuropodia developed with single, simple chaeta, and numerous, heterogomph falcigers, with 1–2 inferiormost having elongated hood. Hesiospina legendrei sp. nov. is the third described species in the genus. Sequences from the two previously described Hesiospina species are included in the molecular analyses, and although the genes used in this study are not sufficient to resolve the relationships on genus level, the result raises questions about the cosmopolitan aspect of H. vestimentifera. 


1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (9) ◽  
pp. 1724-1732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel W. Martin ◽  
Scott C. France ◽  
Cindy Lee Van Dover

A new species of the pardaliscid amphipod genus Halice, H. hesmonectes, is described from hydrothermal vents in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The species occurs in large monospecific swarms in the immediate vicinity of low temperature vent openings. Halice hesmonectes differs from other members of the genus in having the following combination of characters: extremely long pereopods 5–7 (exceeding length of pereon, and nearly twice the length of pereopods 1–4); minute dactylus on pereopods 3 and 4, unique, constricted at midlength; pleopods well developed, as long or longer than pereopods 1–4; telson cleft along approximately two-thirds its length and terminating in an acute tip on each lobe; short article 3 (about 1/3 length of article 2) on mandibular palp; and accessory flagellum of first antenna with only two articles, the distal one being approximately 1/6 the length of the proximal. In addition, the body and virtually all appendages are covered by minute cuticular scales, probably present also on other pardaliscids (visible only via SEM) and known from other peracarids. Problematic taxonomy within the family Pardaliscidae is discussed.


Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1445 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIM LARSEN

The amphipod fauna from hydrothermal vent habitats on the Juan de Fuca Ridge and from experimental wood deployments are examined. The material revealed, among others, a number of lysianassid species belonging to the genera, Paronesimoides Pirlot, 1933 and Schisturella Norman, 1900, and a species of the family Sebidae, belonging to the genus Seba Bate, 1862. The new species: Paronesimoides voightae, Schisturella hansgeorgi, and Seba bathybia are described. A key to Paronesimoides and Schisturella are given


Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1866 (1) ◽  
pp. 323 ◽  
Author(s):  
SABINE GOLLNER ◽  
VIATCHESLAV N. IVANENKO ◽  
PEDRO MARTINEZ ARBIZU

Both male and female of the new deep-sea species Smacigastes barti sp. nov. (Tegastidae, Sars) are described in detail. Copepoda is one of the most diversified taxa at deep-sea hydrothermal vents, but only one species of the family Tegastidae has been described from this habitat and other deep-sea environments. Smacigastes barti is the second species of the genus Smacigastes Ivanenko & Defaye, 2004, and was found in artificial substrates deployed in the vicinity of and 0.5 m from tubeworm aggregations at the 9°50´N region on the East Pacific Rise at 2500 meters depth. The derived character states of the new species are the lack of coxal endites on the maxilla, and 2-segmented exopods of swimming legs 2 and 3, the latter being the result of the fusion of the 2 proximal segments. An identification key to all known genera of Tegastidae is provided. Interestingly, the distribution of S. barti showed that it does not tolerate elevated temperatures and/or the presence of hydrogen sulfide or oxygen fluctuations, although both species of this genus were found in deepsea chemosynthetic environments.


Author(s):  
Ralf Bochert ◽  
Michael L. Zettler

The small polychaete family Trochochaetidae is monogeneric and had been recorded almost exclusively in the northern hemisphere before this study. During a benthic investigation in the coastal shelf zone off Angola at 15°S several specimens were collected from 84 m depth differing from other members of the family and we described it as a new species herein. The only known African species so far was Trochochaeta kirkegaardi from the eastern Atlantic. Trochochaeta ankeae sp. nov. is characterized by having four minute eyes, a small conical antenna, a nuchal crest projecting through chaetiger 2, by lacking notochaetae on chaetiger 2, by having acicular spines on neuropodia 2 and 3 and a pair of conical papillae ventral on abdomen. A key to all 11 known species (including an unnamed one) is given.


2017 ◽  
Vol 186 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
František Šifner

Abstract A new Nearctic species of the genus Coniosternum Becker, 1894, C. masneri sp. nov., is described from Canada, and its important diagnostic characters are illustrated.


Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4763 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-443
Author(s):  
XINGYUE LIU

The genus Rapisma McLachlan, 1866 (montane lacewings) is a rare and little known group of the family Ithonidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). There have been 21 described species of Rapisma, and all of them are distributed from East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Here I report a new species of Rapisma from northwestern Yunnan, China, namely Rapisma weixiense sp. nov. The new species belongs to a group of Rapisma species with very short antennae. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.M. Montes ◽  
J. Barneche ◽  
Y. Croci ◽  
D. Balcazar ◽  
A. Almirón ◽  
...  

Abstract During a parasitological survey of fishes at Iguazu National Park, Argentina, specimens belonging to the allocreadiid genus Auriculostoma were collected from the intestine of Characidium heirmostigmata. The erection of the new species is based on a unique combination of morphological traits as well as on phylogenetic analysis. Auriculostoma guacurarii n. sp. resembles four congeneric species – Auriculostoma diagonale, Auriculostoma platense, Auriculostoma tica and Auriculostoma totonacapanensis – in having smooth and oblique testes, but can be distinguished by a combination of several morphological features, hosts association and geographic distribution. Morphologically, the new species can be distinguished from both A. diagonale and A. platense by the egg size (bigger in the first and smaller in the last); from A. tica by a shorter body length, the genital pore position and the extension of the caeca; and from A. totonacapanensis by the size of the oral and ventral sucker and the post-testicular space. Additionally, one specimen of Auriculostoma cf. stenopteri from the characid Charax stenopterus (Characiformes) from La Plata River, Argentina, was sampled and the partial 28S rRNA gene was sequenced. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that A. guacurarii n. sp. clustered with A. tica and these two as sister taxa to A. cf. stenopteri. The new species described herein is the tenth species in the genus and the first one parasitizing a member of the family Crenuchidae.


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