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Spiophanes tcherniai Fauvel 1950

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Spiophanes tcherniai Fauvel, 1951
Plate VI, figs. 4-6

Spiophanes Tcherniai Fauvel, 1951, pp. 762-764, fig.
1 a—g. Cape Margerie, Adélie Coast, in 15 m.

Diagnosis: Body filiform; prostomium triangular, broadest in front, with a pair of lateral horns and 2 small black eyes. First setiger with a long, cirriform notosetal lobe. Other anterior notopodia with a cirri-form postsetal lobe and distally pointed setae; neuropodia with shorter setae and a single thick inferior genital spine directed ventrolaterally. From about setigers 14-16 each of 3 successive notopodia with 3 or 4 large paleal spines with accompanying fine setae. Uncini first present in neuropodium 17, occur in trans­verse rows of about 5 (fig. 4) ; each uncinus distally smoothly rounded with a hood (fig. 5, left) or some­what dentate (fig. 5, right). Pygidium with 2 short conical processes thickened at base (fig. 6).

Distribution: Adélie Coast, Antarctica; in 15 m.”

(Hartman, 1966)