Two New Species of Zygonemertes(Nemertea: Enopla: Monostilifera) from Hokkaido, Japan.

Accession number;02A0924363
Title;Two New Species of Zygonemertes(Nemertea: Enopla: Monostilifera) from Hokkaido, Japan.
Author; KAJIHARA H (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Jpn)
Journal Title;Species Divers
Journal Code:L2964A
ISSN:1342-1670
VOL.7;NO.2;PAGE.121-143(2002)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.11, TBL.2, REF.43
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;English
Abstract;Two new species of the marine monostiliferous hoplonemertean genus Zygonemertes(Nemertea: Enopla) are fully described and illustrated from specimens collected in Hokkaido, northern Japan. Zygonemertes shintai sp. nov. is characterised by a posteriorly lobed central stylet basis, ten proboscis nereves, and anterior pouches of the intestinal caecum that do not reach the ganglionic lobes of the brain. Zygonemertes jamsteci sp. nov. is distinguished from the most similar species, Z. virescens(Verrill, 1879), by having a proboscis as long as the body and a mixed type of pre-cerebral septum. All stages of oogenesis are present simultaneously in mature females of Z. jamsteci. Their oocytes seem to originate from the ganglionic cells of the lateral nerves. All six sectioned specimens of Z. jamsteci were infected by large numbers of unidentified acephaline eugregarines. (author abst.)