Chloeia kudenovi Barroso & Paiva, 2011

Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., 2023, Revision of Chloeia Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida, Amphinomidae), Zootaxa 5238 (1), pp. 1-134 : 79

Chloeia kudenovi Barroso & Paiva, 2011

Chloeia kudenovi Barroso & Paiva, 2011: 420–422 , Figs 1 , 2 , Tab. 1; Craveiro et al. 2019: 303–304, Figs 1 , 2 .

Diagnosis. Chloeia with bipinnate branchiae from chaetiger 4, abruptly shorter in median and posterior chaetigers; dorsal cirri barely pigmented basally; harpoon notochaetae with smooth tines, or without spurs; neurochaetae spurred and furcates, major tines without denticles along inner margin.

Remarks. Chloeia kudenovi Barroso & Paiva, 2011 was described from Brazil. Barroso et al. (2021) have recently emended the description of this species, and no other specimens were available; C. kudenovi belongs in the group kudenovi by having bipinnate branchiae from chaetiger 4, abruptly shortened after a few chaetigers. As indicated in the key above, C. kudenovi resembles C. pocicola Barroso & Kudenov in Barroso et al. (2021), also described from Brazil, but they differ in pigmentation of dorsal cirri and in the type of furcate neurochaetae. In C. kudenovi dorsal cirri are pigmented basally, and its furcate neurochaetae have smooth tines, whereas in C. pocicola dorsal cirri are pigmented along their basal half, and its furcate neurochaetae have denticles along the inner margin.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Living specimens of four Philippine species of Chloeia Savigny in Lamarck, 1818. A. C. amphora Horst, 1910, dorsal view. B. C. bemisae sp. n., pink variant, dorsal view. C. Same, reddish and brownish variants, dorsal view. D. C. flava (Pallas, 1766), oblique right dorsal view. E. C. violacea Horst, 1910, oblique left dorsal view (scales not available; photos: Philippe Poppe; © Philippe & Guido Poppe – www.poppe-images.com).

FIGURE 2. Chloeia viridis Schmarda, 1861, non-type specimens (BMNH 1931.6.22.16-18). A. Black form, anterior region, dorsal view. B. Same, chaetigers 10-12, dorsal view (branchiae removed from chaetiger 11). C. Same, posterior region, dorsal view. D. Red form, anterior region, dorsal view. E. Same, chaetigers 12-14, dorsal view (branchiae removed from chaetiger 13). F. Same, posterior region, dorsal view. Scale bars: A, F, 0.9 mm; B, E, 0.7 mm; C, 1 mm; D, 1.2 mm.