| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Authors: | J. A. De León-González, Gongora-Garza G. |
| Journal: | Cahiers de Biologie Marine |
| Volume: | 33 |
| Pagination: | 417-424 |
| Keywords: | PHYLLODOCIDA |
| Abstract: | A new species of Ceratocephale is described on the basis of 155 specimens collected from the western coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico at 55-220 m. This new species C. papillata differs by the presence of a middorsal papillae, previously known in C. hartmanae, and sometimes in C. andaman; from C. hartmanae the new species differ in the presence of eyes, and in the start of the double neuropodial cirri; from C. andaman the new species differ by the start and development of the middorsal papillae, furthermore by the presence of sesquigomph spinigers. A key of all Ceratocephale species is given. |
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