Terebellidae (Annelida, Terebelliformia) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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Zootaxa 4019 (1): 484–576 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2015 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.18 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:906BB67C-F137-4CDA-A26B-77A025725800 Terebellidae (Annelida, Terebelliformia) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

JOÃO MIGUEL de MATOS NOGUEIRA1*, PAT HUTCHINGS2 & ORLEMIR CARRERETTE1 1Laboratório de Poliquetologia (LaPol), Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, travessa 14, n. 101, 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 2Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, 2010, New South Wales, Australia. *Corresponding author: [email protected]

Table of contents

Abstract ...... 485 Key words ...... 485 Introduction ...... 485 Material and methods ...... 485 Taxonomy account...... 489 Key to the genera of Terebellidae found in Lizard Island ...... 490 Genus Nicolea Malmgren, 1866 ...... 490 Key to the species of Nicolea found in Lizard Island ...... 491 Nicolea murrayae n. sp...... 491 Nicolea vaili n. sp...... 495 Genus Terebella Linnaeus, 1767 ...... 498 Terebella tantabiddycreekensis Hartmann-Schröder, 1980 ...... 501 Genus Reteterebella Hartman, 1963 ...... 501 Key to the known species of Reteterebella ...... 504 Reteterebella queenslandia Hartman, 1963...... 504 Reteterebella lirrf n. sp...... 506 Genus Pista Malmgren, 1866 ...... 509 Key to the species of Pista found in Lizard Island ...... 510 Pista anneae n. sp...... 510 Pista chloroplokamia n. sp...... 516 Pista kristiani n. sp...... 522 Genus Lanicides Hessle, 1917...... 525 Key to the Australian species of Lanicides ...... 526 Lanicides rubra n. sp...... 527 Genus Lizardia n. gen...... 529 Lizardia quasimodo n. sp...... 531 Genus Pistella Hartmann-Schröder, 1996 ...... 531 Key to the Australian species of Pistella...... 534 Pistella franciscana n. sp...... 534 Genus Eupolymnia Verrill, 1900 ...... 539 Key to the Australian species of Eupolymnia ...... 540 Eupolymnia chlorobranchiata n. sp...... 540 Genus Lanicola Hartmann-Schröder, 1986 ...... 544 Key to the Australian species of Lanicola...... 545 Lanicola rectangulata n. sp...... 545 Genus Loimia Malmgren, 1866 ...... 545 Key to the species of Loimia found in Lizard Island...... 548 Loimia tuberculata n. sp...... 548 Loimia keablei n. sp...... 554 Loimia juani n. sp...... 558 Loimia pseudotriloba n. sp...... 561 Genus Lanice Malmgren, 1866 ...... 567

484 Accepted by E. Kupriyanova: 14 Jul. 2015; published: 18 Sept. 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Key to the Australian species of Lanice ...... 567 Lanice viridis n. sp...... 568 Discussion ...... 472 Acknowledgements ...... 472 References ...... 574

Abstract

In a survey of the polychaetes of the Lizard Island region, sixteen new species of terebellids, plus one previously described species, were found from material collected during the two week long Lizard Island Taxonomic Workshop in 2013, along with material collected from previous projects carried out at Lizard Island. This included the CReefs Project (http:// www.aims.gov.au/creefs/field-program.html), of which Lizard was one of the nodes. Those species are distributed as fol- lows: one species of each of the following genera Eupolymnia Verrill, 1900, Lanice Malmgren, 1866; Lanicides Hessle, 1917, Lanicola Hartmann-Schröder, 1986, Pistella Hartmann-Schröder, 1996, Reteterebella Hartman, 1963, and Terebella Linnaeus, 1767; two species of Nicolea Malmgren, 1866; three species of Pista Malmgren, 1866 and four of Loimia Malmgren, 1866, together with another new species, belonging to the new genus Lizardia n. gen. Keys for identification of these genera and species are provided, together with generic diagnoses and full descriptions for all species; for each new species, comparisons with the morphologically most similar congeners are provided. A redescription of Reteterebella queenslandia Hartman, 1963 is also included.

Key words: Polychaeta, taxonomy, morphology, new species, Queensland, Western Pacific Ocean

Introduction

In August 2013 the Australian Museum hosted the 11th International Polychaete Conference and, immediately after the meeting, a group of researchers attended a workshop funded by the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation, held at the Lizard Island Research Station, a facility of the Australian Museum. The purpose of the workshop was to document some of the polychaete fauna of Lizard Island, on the northern Great Barrier Reef. Prior to this study, Hutchings & Glasby (1986, 1987, 1988) had described eleven species of Terebellidae sensu latu from Lizard Island, but in this paper we describe 16 new species belonging to 11 genera, including one new genus, within the family Terebellidae Grube, 1850, as recently redefined by Nogueira et al. (2013). The species belonging to the other families of Terebellidae sensu latu are described in two other papers in this volume (Hutchings et al. 2015; Nogueira et al. 2015a), and also in another paper (Nogueira et al. 2015b). While polychaetes are abundant around Lizard Island and on the Great Barrier Reef, they have been poorly documented and no comprehensive surveys have been carried out in this region (Hutchings 2008). They occur within coral substrates, but also are abundant in the soft sediments between reefs. Some of our new species are described from a single specimen each and hopefully future studies will provide information on intraspecific variation within these species. The details of the morphology of Terebellidae sensu latu were thoroughly discussed by Nogueira et al. (2010), and the internal relationships within this group were recently studied by Nogueira et al. (2013) and Fitzhugh et al. (2015), among others.

Material and methods

During the workshop (12–23 August, 2013), collections were made daily by snorkelling and SCUBA diving, from the intertidal zone to ~30 m deep, covering most types of habitats found in the Lizard Island and surrounding areas, including coral reefs, mangroves and sandy beaches, with sandy and coral rubble bottoms (see Ribas & Hutchings, 2015, Zootaxa 4019, for location of sampling sites and their co-ordinates). Coral rubble and coral pieces were broken up by using a hammer, polychaetes were sorted alive under a stereomicroscope, relaxed in magnesium chloride solution and selected specimens of some species were photographed alive by Alexander Semenov; those photos are included in Figs 1–3. We provide herein photos of the holotypes of several of our new species alive and after preservation, under stereomicroscope. This allowed us to include colour notes for many species, which have not been included in previously described terebellid species from Australia.