Padovanni, Nathalia; Amaral, Antonia Cecília Zacagnini. (2014). New species of the scale worm genus Pholoides (Polychaeta: Sigalionidae) from south-east Brazil. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 94(8): 1587–1595.
New species of the scale worm genus Pholoides (Polychaeta: Sigalionidae) from south-east Brazil
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
94(8): 1587–1595
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb). Online 8 August 2014 (name available from print date December 2014)
A new species of scale worm, Pholoides brasiliensis sp. nov., belonging to the family Sigalionidae, has been found in Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo States, south-east Brazil. The new species is mainly characterized by a long papilla in the subdistal region of the neuropodia and a prominent papilla on the ventral side of the tentaculophore. Pholoides remains species-poor compared to most Sigalionidae genera, and currently comprises four species.
South West Atlantic ( =only warm temperate; cold temperate see *SUB)