Jasmineira Langerhans, 1880
Jasmineira sp. 1
Voucher. TOROA: station T4FB.
Diagnosis. Small species; voucher is a complete specimen with branchial crown; body 6.5 mm long and 1 mm wide, branchial crown is 5 mm long; body with 8 thoracic and 36 abdominal segments; segments never bead-like, posteriorly becoming crowded (much wider than long); colour in alcohol dark yellow.
Branchial crown with 8 pairs of radioles and 3 pairs of non-vascularized ventral filaments; radiolar stem with quadrate cells, long radiolar pinnules with many small, globular to oval papillae along its length.
Collar is well-developed; with shallow mid-ventral and deep lateral notches.
Glandular ridge on chaetiger 2 present. Peristomial eyes not observed.
Superior thoracic notochaetae limbate, inferior notochaetae mucronate in thorax; thoracic neurochaetae acicular. Abdominal uncini S-shaped with reduced breast as typical for Jasmineira; reduced in number from 8 in chaetiger 9 to 2 in the last chaetiger.
Posteriomost chaetigers gradually narrowing into sharp triangular pygidial lobe, terminal cirrus or pygidial eyespots not observed. Tube not observed.
Remarks. See Jasminiera page for comparisons of the species found.
