WoRMS taxon details
original description
Maciolek, Nancy J. 1984. New records and species of Marenzelleria Mesnil and Scolecolepides Ehlers, (Polychaeta; Spionidae) from Northeastern North America. 48-62. IN: Hutchings, Patricia A. (Ed.). Proceedings of the First International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia, 1983: Sydney, The Linnean Society of New South Wales, p. 48-62. page(s): 58-61, figs. 5-6 [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
source of synonymy
Blake, James A.; Maciolek, Nancy J. (1992). Polychaeta from deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the eastern pacific. III. A new genus and two new species of Spionidae from the Guaymas Basin and Juan de Fuca Ridge with comments on a related species from the western North Atlantic. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 105(4): 723-732., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35607908 page(s): 729-731, fig. 4; note: as Lindaspio carunculata [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Bellan, G.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Laubier, L. (2003). The genus <i>Lindaspio</i> (Annelida: Polychaeta: Spionidae), and a new species from an oil field off Congo, western Africa. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 37(20): 2413-2424., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930210155666 note: revert from transfer to Lindaspio back to Scolecolepides, but best placement unresolved [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 650 m. [details]
Distribution North Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina (USA), off Cape Lookout. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet carunculatus is a Latin adjective meaning 'having a caruncle', referring to the unique caruncle present on the species. [details]
Habitat Occurs at slope depths. [details]
Taxonomy Blake & Maciolek (1992) redescribed Scolecolepides carunculatus Maciolek, 1984, stating that the species did not agree with the definition of the genus Scolecolepides. With base on the structure of the hooded hooks, nature of the prostomium and caruncle, and reduced nature of chaetiger 1, and despite the lack of ventral branchiae and modified anterior notochaetae, the species was included in the newly described genus Lindaspio Blake & Maciolek, 1992. Bellan et al. (2003) considered that the inclusion of Scolecolepides carunculatus in the genus Lindaspio was problematic, as it did not possess two to four chaetigers with notopodial clusters of heavy spines in the anterior region, nor neuropodial branchiae, and performed a phylogenetic analysis of the two genera. The results of this analysis discarded Scolecolepides carunculatus from Lindaspio, but also from the genus Scolecolepides. According to the same authors, the species belongs probably to a different and potential new genus, but due to the lack of autapomorphies, it is dificult to define such genus. For the moment being the species remains in the genus where it was originally described. [details]
Type locality North Atlantic Ocean, USA, North Carolina, off Cape Lookout (34º14.8'N, 75º46.7'W), 650 m. [details]
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