Perinereis Polychaetes of Taiwan
 
A taxonomic study on the genus Perinereis Kinberg, 1865, a highly diversified yet often overlooked nereidid polychaetes in Taiwan, has been conducted. This study reports 24 species, 17 of which are new to science, and one has been re-confirmed. The species identified are as follows: Perinereis aibuhitensis (Grube, 1878), P. floridana (Ehlers, 1868), P. cultrifera (Grube, 1840), P. daxiensis sp. nov., P. fugangensis sp. nov., P. kaomeiensis sp. nov., P. kebalanae sp. nov., P. houbihuensis sp. nov., P. hsinchuensis sp. nov., P. liuqiuensis sp. nov., P. longdongwanensis sp. nov., P. ludaoensis sp. nov., P. mictodonta (Marenzeller, 1879), P. nigropunctata (Horst, 1889), P. pangcahae sp. nov., P. pseudocultrifera sp. nov., P. qiguensis sp. nov., P. taitungensis sp. nov., P. tubicola sp. nov., P. vancaurica (Ehlers, 1868), P. wanlitongensis sp. nov., P. wilsoni Glasby & Hsieh, 2006, P. yehliuensis sp. nov., and P. yufuensis sp. nov.

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