{"title":"Carnarvonis gen. nov. and Warregoensis gen. nov.: two new genera and species of subterranean amphipods (Crangonyctoidea: Chillagoeidae) described from north-eastern Australia","authors":"Rachael A. King, Danielle N. Stringer, R. Leijs","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1884","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"56 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138595139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new genus and five new species of Phoxocephalidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Eastern Tasman Sea, the Otago Shelf, and The Snares, New Zealand","authors":"Joanne Taylor, R. Peart","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1894","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"8 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138595594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Penelope B. Berents, S. Ahyong, Alan A. Myers, Lucia Fanini
{"title":"Jim the man: reminiscences by his friends","authors":"Penelope B. Berents, S. Ahyong, Alan A. Myers, Lucia Fanini","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1873","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":"42 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138597634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Georgieva, H. Wiklund, Dino A. Ramos, L. Neal, C. Glasby, L. Gunton
{"title":"The annelid community of a natural deep-sea whale fall off eastern Australia","authors":"M. Georgieva, H. Wiklund, Dino A. Ramos, L. Neal, C. Glasby, L. Gunton","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1800","url":null,"abstract":"In the deep ocean, whale falls (deceased whales that sink to the seafloor) act as a boost of productivity in this otherwise generally food-limited setting, nourishing organisms from sharks to microbes during the various stages of their decomposition. Annelid worms are habitual colonizers of whale falls, with new species regularly reported from these settings and their systematics helping to resolve biogeographic patterns among deep-sea organic fall environments. During a 2017 expedition of the Australian research vessel RV Investigator to sample bathyal to abyssal communities off Australia’s east coast, a natural whale fall was opportunistically trawled at ~1000 m depth. In this study, we provide detailed taxonomic descriptions of the annelids associated with this whale-fall community, using both morphological and molecular techniques. From this material we describe nine new species from five families (Dorvilleidae: Ophryotrocha dahlgreni sp. nov. Ophryotrocha hanneloreae sp. nov., Ophryotrocha ravarae sp. nov.; Hesionidae: Vrijenhoekia timoharai sp. nov.; Nereididae: Neanthes adriangloveri sp. nov., Neanthes visicete sp. nov.; Orbiniidae: Orbiniella jamesi sp. nov.), including two belonging to the bone-eating genus Osedax (Siboglinidae: Osedax waadjum sp. nov., Osedax byronbayensis sp. nov.) that are the first to be described from Australian waters. We further provide systematic accounts for 10 taxa within the Ampharetidae, Amphinomidae, Microphthalmidae, Nereididae, Orbiniidae, Phyllodocidae, Protodrilidae, Sphaerodoridae and Phascolosomatidae. Our investigations uncover unique occurrences and for the first time enable the evaluation of biogeographic links between Australian whale falls and others in the western Pacific as well as worldwide.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44443438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New species of Scalibregmatidae (Annelida) from slope and abyssal depths off eastern Australia","authors":"J. Blake","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1827","url":null,"abstract":"Seven new species of Scalibregmatidae are described from deep waters off the east coast of Australia. Samples were collected as part of the RV Investigator voyage IN2017_V03 in May/June 2017 using a Brenke sledge and 0.25 m2 box core. Sample depths reported in the present study were from the lower continental slope of about 2450 m to abyssal depths up to 4280 m. These collections provide the first scalibregmatid polychaetes to be described from deep water off Australia. The new species of Scalibregmatidae are in the genera Asclerocheilus (1), Axiokebuita (1), Oligobregma (4), and Pseudoscalibregma (1). Each of the new species is compared and contrasted with their known congeners. Asclerocheilus and Oligobregma are the largest genera of the family in terms of numbers of species; the known species of each of these genera are tabulated and compared. The Scalibregmatidae known from abyssal depths of about 3000 m and greater are reviewed and discussed.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48100998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Gunton, William Zhang, E. Kupriyanova, P. Hutchings
{"title":"New species of Melinna (Melinnidae, Annelida) from the Australian abyss with comments on M. albicincta, M. cristata and M. elisabethae","authors":"L. Gunton, William Zhang, E. Kupriyanova, P. Hutchings","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1803","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of Melinna (family Melinnidae) is described from the abyssal depths off the east coast of Australia. All material was collected during the RV Investigator voyage “Sampling the abyss” (IN2017_V03) in May–June 2017 from Bass Strait, Tasmania/Victoria using a beam trawl at 4197–4133 m depth. The new species Melinna hamulus sp. nov. differs from all other species of Melinna by having around 45 abdominal segments, dorsal membrane with 13–17 projections, four pairs of branchiae completely free and occurring in depths of over 4000 m. Phylogenetic relationships between our new species and other species within the family Melinnidae were assessed using the nuclear 18S and the mitochondrial 16S and cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene fragments. The results revealed that Melinna hamulus sp. nov. was genetically distinct from all other species of Melinnidae. This is the first species of Melinna to be described from Australian waters. We provide a new standard for description of species of Melinna and provide further detail on three existing species: Melinna albicincta Mackie & Pleijel, 1995, Melinna elisabethae McIntosh, 1914 and the type species of the genus Melinna cristata (Sars, 1851) using morphological characters illustrated with light and scanning electron microscopy photographs. We provide a table with the main diagnostic characters of all described species of Melinna together with type localities and depths.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46077163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New species of Cirratulidae (Annelida) from continental slope and abyssal depths off eastern Australia","authors":"J. Blake","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1799","url":null,"abstract":"Seven new species of Cirratulidae are described from deep waters off the east coast of Australia. Samples were collected as part of the RV Investigator voyage IN2017_V03 in May/June 2017 using a Brenke sledge and 0.25 m2 box core. Sample depths reported in the present study were from the lower continental slope of about 2100 m to abyssal depths up to 4170 m. These collections provide the first cirratulid polychaetes to be described from deep water off Australia. The new species of Cirratulidae are in the genera Aphelochaeta (2), Chaetocirratulus (2), Chaetozone (2), and Kirkegaardia (1). Each of the new species is compared and contrasted with their known congeners. The bitentaculate Cirratulidae known from abyssal depths of 3000 m and greater are reviewed and discussed.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43846889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amazing diversity of Nothria (Annelida, Onuphidae) in the Australian deep sea","authors":"H. Paxton, N. Budaeva, L. Gunton","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1802","url":null,"abstract":"The epibenthic onuphid genus Nothria Malmgren, 1867 presently comprises 21 accepted species. We are reporting here on specimens collected during six deep-sea expeditions of the RV Investigator from 2015–2018 to the Great Australian Bight (GAB) and off eastern Australia from Tasmania to Queensland, describing eight new species of Nothria. This is the first integrated study of the genus, sequencing the markers COI, 16S rDNA and 28S rDNA from 37 specimens and employing conventional and exploratory morphological characters as well as tube consistency and structure for identification. Molecular data provided strong support for recognition of the eight new species and the Nothria otsuchiensis Imajima, 1986 species complex. Since the analysis of morphology between the specimens of this complex has not revealed any obvious differences, it may represent a complex of cryptic species. Nothria digitata sp. nov. was collected at a depth of 400 m whilst the remaining seven new species are from depths of 980–2751 m. Nothria deltasigma sp. nov., N. digitata sp. nov. and N. minima sp. nov. were collected at a single station each, while N. josae sp. nov. and N. simplex sp. nov. were found at two stations. However, N. delta sp. nov. displayed the widest distribution, occurring at GAB, Tasmania and Jervis Bay Marine Park, NSW. Most stations yielded only one species, Jervis Bay Marine Park and south of Brians, Tasmania, harboured two, but an astounding example of sympatry was discovered at Huon Marine Park, Tasmania, where three species, N. delta sp. nov., N. lizae sp. nov. and N. orensanzi sp. nov. were collected together in one station.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47716725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new species of the mysterious genus Spirodiscus (Annelida: Serpulidae) of the eastern Australian abyss","authors":"E. Kupriyanova, Beth Flaxman","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1801","url":null,"abstract":"In May–June 2017 an expedition on board RV Investigator sampled benthic communities along the lower slope and abyss of Australia’s eastern margin from off mid-Tasmania to the Coral Sea. Over 200 annelids of the family Serpulidae collected during the voyage were collected and deposited in the Australian Museum in Sydney. Among them there was a new species of the poorly known abyssal (3754–4378 m) genus Spirodiscus. Serpulids typically build cylindrical calcareous tubes attached to hard substrates. Until now, only three serpulid species inhabiting free-lying polygonal tubes were reported from the deep sea: Spirodiscus grimaldii Fauvel, 1909 with quadrangular spirally coiled tubes, Bathyditrupa hovei Kupriyanova, 1993 with quadrangular tusk-shaped tubes, and Spirodiscus groenlandicus (McIntosh, 1877) with octagonal tusk-shaped tubes. The new species, S. ottofinamusi sp. nov. has very characteristic thin tusk-shaped unattached fluted tubes similar to those found in S. groenlandicus, but it differs by the details of collar, thoracic tori and abdominal chaetae. Morphologically, it has a pinnulated opercular peduncle and flat geniculate abdominal chaetae like filogranin serpulids but lacks thoracic Apomatus chaetae like serpulins. The first DNA sequences of this mysterious taxon places the new species within the filogranins in sister group relationship with Chitinopoma serrula.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43338418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mysid subfamily Boreomysinae (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) in the southeast Australian deep-sea","authors":"M. Daneliya","doi":"10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1845","url":null,"abstract":"The deep-water mysid crustaceans of Australia have been barely known. Recent explorations of RV Investigator (CSIRO) in the southeast Australian waters discovered a unique fauna. In this special study of the marine subfamily Boreomysinae (family Mysidae) in Australia, five species from both genera Boreomysis and Neobirsteiniamysis are reported, including two new species for science: B. inopinata sp. nov., B. sibogae, B. sphaerops, B. urospina sp. nov. and N. inermis. Among the members of the subfamily, only B. sibogae has been previously known from Australia. The genus Neobirsteiniamysis and its bipolar-amphitropical species N. inermis are firstly recorded in Australia. Boreomysis inopinata sp. nov. has additional spinules on the outer spine of the antennal scale, which are not found in other species of the subfamily. Boreomysis urospina sp. nov. has the longest first segment of the uropodal exopod, laterally terminated by three spiniform setae; and its uropodal endopod is armed with up to five medial spiniform setae, the largest number in the subfamily. This species is included in a newly established subgenus Petryashovia subgen. nov., which unites epi-mesopelagic boreomysines, lacking the rostral projection, having rather small ventrolateral lobes of the carapace, and the 1-segmented propodus of the pereopods. The subfamily and generic diagnoses are updated. Additionally, a fragment of the mtDNA COI gene was sequenced for most of the studied species.","PeriodicalId":54505,"journal":{"name":"Records of the Australian Museum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48179771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}