Thanks Arne,
Interesting. A number of papers on nereids are cited, and it is of course likely many cryptic species exist in that family. I would like to mention the information available from the morphology of Nereididae heteronereids as an aid for revealing cryptic taxa. Somewhat bizarrely in my view some nereid taxonomists have regarded variation and structures revealed by heteronereis as unimportant as if they were random oddities. But the heteronereis is the most adult worm stage. Two recent papers which use heteronereis in relation to cryptics are:
Glasby, C. J.; Wei, N. W. V.; Gibb, K. S. 2013. Cryptic species of Nereididae (Annelida : Polychaeta) on Australian coral reefs. Invertebrate Systematics 27(3): 245-264 .
They said: " This is only the second report of a cryptic nereidid species only being distinguishable morphologically based on the
metamorphosed sexually mature forms. The other (Read 2007) was of three cryptic species of Platynereis from New Zealand"
This is a reference to:
Read, Geoffrey B. 2007. Taxonomy of sympatric species of New Zealand Platynereis, with description of three new species additional to P. australis (Schmarda) (Annelida: Polychaeta: Nereididae). Zootaxa 1558: 1-28
My paper uses 'cryptic' in the abstract & keywords Arne. :-)
Cheers,
Geoff
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Subject: [Annelida] Cryptic polychaete diversity: a review, available as early view
Dear all
just an announcement that the following paper "Cryptic polychaete diversity: a review" is out as Early View. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.12044/abstract
If you do not have the possibility to access it please feel free to ask.
all the best
Arne Nygren
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