Steiner, T. M. and Amaral, A. C. Z. 2000. Two new species of Marphysa Quatrefages, 1865 (Eunicidae, Polychaeta) from intertidal sandy beaches of the Sao Sebastiao Channel, State of Sao Paulo (Brazil). Bulletin of Marine Science, 67(1): 479-490.

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Publication

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/2000/00000067/00000001/art00040

Kristian Fauchald's Polychaeta DB

This paper reports the presence of two new species of Marphysa from São Sebastião Channel, State of São Paulo, Brazil, M. sebastiana n. sp. and M. formosa n. sp., both collected from intertidal sandy beaches. These species belong to the group of Marphysa that has branchiae scattered over an extensive region of the body and parapodia with both compound falcigerous and spinigerous chaetae. Comparisons between the two new species and M. digitibranchia Hoagland, 1920, M. orensanzi Carrera-Parra and Salazar-Vallejo, 1998, Marphysa sp. B (Gardiner, 1975), and Marphysa sp. (Winsnes, 1989) are presented.

South West Atlantic ( =only warm temperate; cold temperate see *SUB)

Systematics, Taxonomy

Polychaeta

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