TY  - JOUR
A1  - Martin, Daniel
A1  - Capa, Maria
A1  - Martínez, Alejandro
A1  - Costa, Ana Cristina
T1  - Taxonomic implications of describing a new species of Loimia (Annelida, Terebellidae) with two size-dependent morphotypes
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - We describe Loimia davidi sp. nov. (Annelida, Terebellidae) from São Miguel Island (Azores). It resembles Loimia gigantea (Montagu, 1819) (English Channel) in having very large adults, the ventral shield shape and the types of capillary notochaetae (three), while differing in shape and colour of the lateral lappets, branchiae length, the arrangement of segments, ventral shields, uncini and pygidial papillae. Large (> 30 cm long) and small (≈ 5 cm long) specimens of L. davidi sp. nov. show typically interspecific morphological differences while clustering in a single entity after species delimitation analyses of a cytochrome c oxidase I fragment. Therefore, we consider them to belong to a single species and discuss the taxonomic implications of size-dependent morphological differences. Within Loimia, we (1) suggest that large specimens may have been scarcely reported due to their rarity and collecting difficulty, while small specimens may have been reported either as ‘sp.’ or as the ‘cosmopolitan’ Loimia medusa (Savigny, 1822), (2) evaluate the size-related morphological disparity in all described species using a hypervolume analysis, (3) identify possible similar size-dependency in previously described species, (4) summarise the morphological information of all known species of Loimia; and (5) discuss on the four species reported in Europe.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 833:60-96 
KW  - Loimia
KW  - Azores Archipelago
KW  - European distribution
KW  - intraspecific morphological variability
KW  - short molecular distance
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68757
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687570
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2022
IS  - 833
SP  - 60
EP  - 96
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -