Glycera orientalis sp. n. from the North West Pacific (Polychaeta: Glyceridae)
G.N. Buzhinskaja
Abstract. Glycera orientalis sp. n. is described from the Bay of Peter the Great, the coasts of south Sakhalin and the south Kuril Islands. The new species is characterized by having 3 types of proboscidial papillae (“fingernail”, digitiform and broader conical), aileron with an interramal plate, non-retractile fingerlike branchiae, completely confluent postsetal lamellae from 9-12th to 50-70th setigers.
Zoosystematica Rossica, 1992, 1(1): 6–8 ▪ Published in print 10 March 1993
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