Amaeana Hartman, 1959

Londoño-Mesa, Mario H., 2009, Terebellidae (Polychaeta: Terebellida) from the Grand Caribbean region 2320, Zootaxa 2320 (1), pp. 1-93 : 11

Amaeana Hartman, 1959

Hartman, 1959:495.— Holthe, 1986a:157.— Hartmann-Schröder, 1996:523.—Hutchings & Glasby, 1986b:319.— Hutchings, 1997:136.

Synonym: Amaea Malmgren, 1866 (preoccupied by a mollusk genus).

Type species: Polycirrus trilobata Sars, 1863 ; by subsequent designation.

Diagnosis: Tentacular membrane wide, clover-shaped; eyespots present or absent; ventral shields reduced, inside groove formed by two glandular, longitudinal, ventral ridges; 9–13 pairs of notopodia from segment 3; chaetae smooth or barbed; about five segments without chaetae after last thoracic notopodia; thoracic and abdominal neuropodia absent; abdominal neuropodia with smooth spine-like chaetae.

Remarks: Seven species have been described, none of them from the Grand Caribbean region. Nevertheless, A. trilobata ( Sars, 1863) , from Norway, has been recorded by O’Gower and Wacasey (1967) from Biscayne Bay, Florida, and by Kritzler (1984) from the upper Gulf of Mexico. After the revision of specimens of Kritzler (Gulf of Mexico) and Puerto Rico, it is concluded that there is an undescribed species in the Grand Caribbean that differs from the previous published descriptions of A. trilobata .