Pseudopotamilla Bush 1905
- Dataset
- Sabellid worms from the Patagonian Shelf and Humboldt Current System (Annelida, Sabellidae): Phyllis Knight-Jones’ and José María Orensanz’s collections
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Annelida
- class
- Polychaeta
- order
- Sabellida
- family
- Sabellidae
- genus
- Pseudopotamilla
discussion
Remarks. Pseudopotamilla is represented by some boring species in rocks and dead coral, and characterized by the presence of unpaired proximal compound radiolar eyes on the outer margins of radioles. The type species, Pseudopotamilla reniformis (Bruguière, 1789), was originally described from Iceland and has been subsequently reported from the Caribbean Sea, European waters, American coasts of North and South Atlantic, Arctic, and North Pacific (Kolbasova et al. 2013 and references therein). As shown in her poster presented during the 8 th International Polychaeta Conference in Madrid, Knight-Jones, Darbyshire and Petersen were working on the designation of a neotype for Pseudopotamilla reniformis and the resurrection of two species previously synonymized with P. reniformis (Knight-Jones et al. 2004); however, Knight-Jones and Petersen died before this work was completed, but the designation of a neotype is now under revision (Knight-Jones et al. 2017). In addition, records of P. reniformis from the Caribbean area were corrected as P. fitzhughi (Tovar-Hernández & Salazar-Vallejo, 2006), and those from Australia were reassigned as Pseudopotamilla sp. A and sp. B by Capa (2007), showing that some misidentifications of Pseudopotamilla species have occurred. A full revision of Pseudopotamilla is needed in order to confirm the distribution of P. reniformis.
Name
- Homonyms
- Pseudopotamilla Bush 1905
- Pseudopotamilla