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Revision of Chone Kr⊘yer, 1856 (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) from North America and descriptions of four new species

2007; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 41; Issue: 9-12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00222930701250912

1464-5262

María Ana Tovar‐Hernández,

Parasite Biology and Host Interactions

Abstract The present study deals with the revision of type and non‐type material from 12 species of Chone Kr⊘yer, Citation1856 (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) that have been described from North America: C. albocincta Banse, Citation1972, C. aurantiaca (Johnson, Citation1901), C. bimaculata Banse and Nichols, Citation1968, C. ecaudata (Moore, Citation1923), C. gracilis Moore, Citation1906, C. magna (Moore, Citation1923), C. minuta Hartman, Citation1944, C. mollis (Bush in Moore, 1904), C. picta (Verrill, Citation1885), C. princei McIntosh, Citation1916, C. ungavana Chamberlin, Citation1920, and C. veleronis Banse, Citation1972; and the formal description of four new species: Chone eiffelturris n. sp., Chone paramollis n. sp., Chone quebecensis n. sp., and Chone trilineata n. sp. Chone princei is redescribed and transferred to the genus Jasmineira Langerhans, Citation1880; C. ungavana is declared incertae sedis; C. bimaculata is reinstated; C. minuta is synonymized with C. ecaudata, and C. mollis is recorded for the Pacific coast of Panama. Keywords: ChoneNorth AmericaPolychaetaSabellidae Acknowledgements I extend sincere thanks to my supervisors Sergio I. Salazar‐Vallejo (ECOSUR‐Chetumal) and Kirk Fitzhugh (LACM‐AHF) for continued support and valuable comments. I gratefully acknowledge helpful comments on the manuscript by Stacy Doner (ENSR Marine and Coastal Center) and Andy Cohen (San Francisco Estuary Institute). The histological work was possible thanks to the guidance and support of Teresa Sosa‐Rodríguez and Pilar Torres‐García (Laboratorio de Invertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM). I would like to extend my gratitude to Silvia Espinosa Matías (Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica de Barrido, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM) and Guadalupe Nieto (Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica de Barrido, ECOSUR, Tapachula) for their help in processing SEM pictures. I want to extend special thanks to Emma Sherlock (BMNH), Jean‐Marc Gagnon (CMN), Rick Rowe and Ricardo Martínez‐Lara (CSD‐MBL), Emilia González (ECOSUR, Chetumal), Craig Staude (FHL‐UW), Sandra Farrington (FSBC), Leslie Harris (LACM‐AHF), Tom Parker (LACSD‐MBL), Ardis Johnston (MCZ), Kelly Sendall (RBCM), Karin Sindemark (SMNH), Kristian Fauchald and William Keel (USNM), Verónica Rodríguez‐Villanueva (EcoMar‐UABC), Erik Lazo‐Wasem (YPM), and Danny Eibye‐Jacobsen (ZMUC), who arranged loans of museum material and other collection information. I am grateful to Leslie Harris, Ardis Johnston, and Jean‐Marc Gagnon for their kind hospitality and wonderful support and assistance during my stays at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, The Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, and The Canadian Museum of Nature, respectively. This work was supported by a PhD scholarship from the El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) in El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal (México).