Vol. 58, 2019

(update: 2019.08.01; 09.10)
 

Two Species of Fireworms (Annelida: Amphinomidae: Chloeia) from Hong Kong

Zhi Wang^1,2, Yanjie Zhang^1,2, Yang James Xie², and Jian-Wen Qiu^1,2,*

¹HKBU Institute of Research and Continuing Education, Shenzhen, China
²Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. *Correspondence: Tel: +852-34117055. E-mail: qiujw@hkbu.edu.hk

Received 12 May 2019 / Accepted 16 July 2019
Communicated by Benny K.K. Chan

A new fireworm species and a poorly described species of the genus Chloeia are described on the basis of specimens collected from Hong Kong. The new species, C. bimaculata sp. nov., is characterized by having two distinct mid-dorsal dark spots one behind the other on each segment. It can be distinguished from its sympatric species C. parva, which is characterized by having a mid-dorsal “Y”-shaped dark pigment on each segment. Chloeia bimaculata sp. nov. diverges from C. parva by 16.8% for the COI gene, 4.6% for the 16S rRNA gene and 0.6% for the 28S rRNA gene. Other Chloeia species with the corresponding gene sequences available in the GenBank show greater divergences.

Key words: Divergence, Polychaete, Taxonomy, South China Sea.

Citation: Wang Z, Zhang Y, Xie YJ, Qiu JW. 2019. Two species of fireworms (Annelida: Amphinomidae: Chloeia) from Hong Kong. Zool Stud 58:22. doi:10.6620/ZS.2019.58-22.

Supplementary Materials: Fig. S1 | Fig. S2 | Fig. S3 | Table S1