Genus Paradiopatra Ehlers, 1887

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• Paradiopatra Ehlers, E. 1887. Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L.F. Pourtales, during the years 1868–1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878–79), in the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer Blake, Lieut.-Com. C.D. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 15: 1-335 [73].

  Type species:

   Paradiopatra fragosa Ehlers, 1887 by subsequent designation, see Hartman, O. 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 & 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 23: 1-628 [305].
• Notonuphis Kucheruk, N.V. 1978. Deep-water Onuphidae (Polychaeta) from the collections of the 16th cruise of the RN Dmitry Mendeleev (to the generic classification of the family Onuphidae). Trudy Instituta Okeanologii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Moskva 113: 88-106 [93].
• Sarsonuphis Fauchald, K. 1982. Revision of Onuphis, Nothria, and Paradiopatra (Polychaeta: Onuphidae) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 356: i-vi, 1-109 [64].

Introduction

Paxton & Budeva (2013) provide a key to all 32 species in the genus.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Diagnosis

"Median antenna shorter or equal to lateral antennae; anterior 2–4 pairs of parapodia modified but not enlarged, with pseudocompound falcigers with moderately long to long pointed hoods; limbate chaetae without serration; branchiae with single or pectinate filaments, present only through median chaetigers or absent; postchaetal lobes limited to about ten anterior chaetigers; two pairs of anal cirri; maxillae VI absent." [Paxton & Budeva 2013: 142]

Diagnosis References

Paxton, H. & Budaeva, N. 2013. Paradiopatra (Annelida: Onuphidae) from eastern Australian waters, with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 3686(2): 140-164

General References

Budaeva, N. & Fauchald, K. 2011. Phylogeny of the Diopatra generic complex with a revision of Paradiopatra Ehlres (sic), 1887 (Polychaeta: Onuphidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 319-436

Paxton, H. & Budaeva, N. 2013. Paradiopatra (Annelida: Onuphidae) from eastern Australian waters, with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 3686(2): 140-164

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