Scolelepis Blainville, 1828

Götting, Miriam, 2015, Spionidae (Annelida: ‘ Polychaeta’: Canalipalpata) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia: the genera Malacoceros, Scolelepis, Spio, Microspio, and Spiophanes, Zootaxa 4019 (1), pp. 378-413 : 386

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.15

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:54E60C63-EC98-424A-B66E-A72CA79B65E8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5665398

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/971C0501-893C-FFA7-DFCD-9762FD3E64B3

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scientific name

Scolelepis Blainville, 1828
status

 

Genus Scolelepis Blainville, 1828 View in CoL

Scolelepis Blainville, 1828 View in CoL ; type-species: Lumbricus squamata Müller, 1806 , by monotypy.

Aonis sensu Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833 View in CoL [Not Savigny, 1822] (misapplication of Savigny´s genus for Nereis caeca ( Nephtyidae View in CoL ))

Asetocalamyzas Tzetlin, 1985 (dwarf male of a spionid, not a parasitic syllid as originally described)

Nerine Johnston, 1838 View in CoL (subjective synonym)

Nerinides Mesnil, 1896 View in CoL (subjective synonym)

Pseudomalacoceros Czerniavsky, 1881 View in CoL (subjective synonym)

Scolecolepis Malmgren, 1867 (unjustified emendation)

[Synonymy fide Read, 2015]

Diagnosis. Prostomium pointed on anterior margin, sometimes truncate, posteriorly extended into pointed caruncle, rarely flattened or depressed or blunt, caruncle attached or detached; occipital tentacle present or absent. Peristomium well-developed, with or without lateral wings encompassing prostomium partially. Nuchal organs and metameric dorsal ciliated organs not discernable (by means of light microscopy). Palps without median ciliated groove, but usually with two distinctly or indistinctly separated bands of transverse rows of cilia present. Branchiae present from chaetiger 2, continuing to near end of body, in anterior chaetigers completely fused to notopodial lamellae or distally free; accessory branchiae present or absent. Anterior chaetae limbate capillaries, usually arranged in two rows; posteriorly hooks and capillaries present, hooks with 0–3 apical teeth with a falcate or straight shaft (subgenus Scolelepis ) or multidentate with large main fang, several apical teeth and curved shaft (subgenus Parascolelepis ). In Parascolelepis palpal sheaths are well-developed, in Scolelepis palpal sheaths are short and fused to the palp. Pygidium with oval disc or multilobed.

Remarks. According to Eibye-Jacobsen (1997) Scolelepis (Parascolelepis) appears to be defined on the basis of good autapomorphies, whereas Scolelepis (Scolelepis) may well be paraphyletic. Some authors have used Scolelepis and Parascolelepis as full genera (e.g., Blake & Arnofsky 1999, Williams 2007) though a formal statement regarding this matter was not given.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

InfraClass

Canalipalpata

Order

Spionida

Family

Spionidae

Loc

Scolelepis Blainville, 1828

Götting, Miriam 2015
2015
Loc

Asetocalamyzas

Tzetlin 1985
1985
Loc

Nerinides

Mesnil 1896
1896
Loc

Pseudomalacoceros

Czerniavsky 1881
1881
Loc

Scolecolepis

Malmgren 1867
1867
Loc

Nerine

Johnston 1838
1838
Loc

Aonis sensu

Audouin & Milne-Edwards 1833
1833
Loc

Scolelepis

Blainville 1828
1828
Loc

Lumbricus squamata Müller, 1806

Muller 1806
1806
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