Bathyvermilia challengeri Zibrowius, 1973

Gunton, Laetitia M., Kupriyanova, Elena K., Alvestad, Tom, Avery, Lynda, Blake, James A., Biriukova, Olga, Boeggemann, Markus, Borisova, Polina, Budaeva, Nataliya, Burghardt, Ingo, Capa, Maria, Georgieva, Magdalena N., Glasby, Christopher J., Hsueh, Pan-Wen, Hutchings, Pat, Jimi, Naoto, Kongsrud, Jon A., Langeneck, Joachim, Meissner, Karin, Murray, Anna, Nikolic, Mark, Paxton, Hannelore, Ramos, Dino, Schulze, Anja, Sobczyk, Robert, Watson, Charlotte, Wiklund, Helena, Wilson, Robin S., Zhadan, Anna & Zhang, Jinghuai, 2021, Annelids of the eastern Australian abyss collected by the 2017 RV ' Investigator' voyage, ZooKeys 1020, pp. 1-198 : 1

Bathyvermilia challengeri Zibrowius, 1973 Fig. 28A

Diagnosis.

Tubes with characteristic sculpture of numerous transverse ridges close to each other.

Remarks.

Only empty tubes were collected. The original records of this species came from three RV ‘Challenger’ stations in the North and South Pacific Ocean taken at 4246-5719 m ( Zibrowius 1973).

Records.

2 tubes. Suppl. material 1: op. 90 (AM).

Figures

Figure 28. Serpulidae A Bathyvermilia challengeri, tube only (AM W. 49722) B Bathyvermilia cf. kupriyanovae, tube only (AM W. 49707) C Bathyvermilia sp. nov. 3, specimen in white shiny tube (AM W. 49494) D Hyalopomatus dieteri, tube only (AM W. 49689) E Bathyvermilia sp. nov. 4, specimen in tube with high keel (AM W. 49448) F Hyalopomatus sp. nov. 2, specimen removed from the tube (AM W. 49727) G Hyalopomatus sp. nov. 3, specimen removed from the tube (AM W. 49494) H Protis sp. 3, specimen partly removed tube, with egg sacks (AM W. 49682) I Spirodiscus sp. nov., specimens in tubes (AM W. 49511). Scale bars: 2 mm (A, C); 10 mm (B, E); 1 mm (D, F, H); 0.5 mm (G); 2 mm (I).