New records of Echiura and Sipuncula in the North Atlantic Ocean, with the description of a new species of Jacobia

Abstract

Data on Echiura and Sipuncula collected by the MAR-ECO expedition on the RV G.O. Sars to the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge are presented. Eight specimens of echiuran and 13 specimens of sipunculan worms were obtained from eight stations. Two species of Echiura and two species of Sipuncula were identified. One echiuran is a new species of Jacobia.

Keywords:

• Distribution
• Echiura
• Jacobia
• North Atlantic
• Sipuncula

Published in collaboration with the University of Bergen and the Institute of Marine Research, Norway, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Published in collaboration with the University of Bergen and the Institute of Marine Research, Norway, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Acknowledgements

I am deeply grateful to Andrey V. Gebruk (Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) for providing me with the material for taxonomic identification and to Olga N. Zezina (Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) for her valuable comments on this paper. This work was an element of MAR-ECO, a field project under the Census of Marine Life programme.

Notes

Published in collaboration with the University of Bergen and the Institute of Marine Research, Norway, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark