Dear colleagues,
We need
help on the accepted name of a Maldanidae species.
We identified
the Maldanidae polychaete using the “Garwood, P. R. 2007. Family Maldanidae - A
guide to species in waters around the British Isles. NMBAQC 2006 taxonomic workshop,
Dove Marine Laboratory”.
It has 3
cirri originating from a broad muscular ring forming a pygidial plate and anal
cone present, with a well developed ventral valve.
We found
this species 60 km offshore the coast of Marche Region (Northern Adriatic Sea,
Italy) at 60m depth, on sandy bottoms.
The key (Garwood, 2007) indicated it as Clymenura tricirrata
but now this name is not accepted in WoRMS Portal. WoRMS indicated two
species as accepted name: Microclymene
tricirrata Arwidsson, 1906 and Leiochone tricirrata Bellan
& Reys, 1967.
Which is the corresponding name for our species?
Thanks a lot
Pierluigi, Clara e Elisa
