Psamathini

Psamathini are a tribe of phyllodocid "bristle worms" (class Polychaeta) in the family Hesionidae. They are (like almost all polychaetes) marine organisms; most are found on the continental shelf, but some have adapted to greater depths down to the abyssal plain.[1]

Psamathini
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Psamathini

Pleijel, 1998
Genera

5-8, see text

Their dorsal cirri alternate, and they usually lack facial tubercles. Most have prolonged teeth on the chaetal blades. 5 genera are placed in the Psamathini with certainty, and three further ones are often included here too in recent times, to make this tribe refer to a distinct clade of polychaetes:[2]

  • Bonuania Pillai, 1965 (tentatively placed here)
  • Hesiospina Imajima & Hartman, 1964
  • Micropodarke Okuda, 1938 (tentatively placed here)
  • Nereimyra Blainville, 1828 (= Halimede Rathke 1843 (non de Haan, [1835]: preoccupied), Psammate)
  • Psamathe Johnston, 1840 (= Kefersteinia)
  • Sirsoe Pleijel, 1998 (tentatively placed here)
  • Syllidia Quatrefages, 1866
  • Vrijenhoekia Pleijel, Rouse, Ruta, Wiklund & Nygren, 2008

Footnotes

  1. Pleijel et al. (2008)
  2. Pleijel et al. (2008), WoRMS (2008)

References

  • Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W.; Ruta, Christine; Wiklund, Helena & Nygren, Arne (2008): Vrijenhoekia balaenophila, a new hesionid polychaete from a whale fall off California. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 152(4): 625–634. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00360.x (HTML abstract)
  • World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (2008): Psamathini. Version of 2008-MAR-26. Retrieved 2009-FEB-23.


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