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PAULO DA CUNHA LANA1, PAULO PAGLIOSA2, PAULO CÉSAR PAIVA3, ORLEMIR CARRERETTE4, KARLA PARESQUE4, JOÃO MIGUEL DE MATOS NOGUEIRA4, ANTONIA CECILIA ZACAGNINI AMARAL5, TATIANA MENCHINI STEINER5, MARTIN LINDSEY CHRISTOFFERSEN6, ANDRÉ RINALDO SENNA GARRAFFONI7, MAIKON DI DOMENICO8, RÔMULO BARROSO9, ALEXANDRA E. RIZZO10 & MARCELO VERONESI FUKUDA11. 1Laboratório de Bentos, Centro de Estudos do Mar, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 83255-000, Pontal do Sul, Paraná. e-mail: [email protected]. 2Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Geociências, 88040-900 Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. 3Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, Sala A0-108, Bloco A , CEP: 21941-902, Ilha do Fundão, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro. 4Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, n. 101, 05508-090, São Paulo, São Paulo. 5Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas / UNICAMP, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255 13.083-862 – Campinas, São Paulo. 6Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, 58051-900, João Pessoa, Paraíba. 7Laboratório de Evolução de Organismos Meiofaunais, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255, CEP: 13083-862, CP: 6109, Campinas, São Paulo. 8Laboratório de Modelagem Ecológica (LAMEC), Centro de Estudos do Mar, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Av. Beira-mar, s/n, Caixa Postal / P.O.Box: 61, CEP / Zip Code: 83255-976, Pontal do Sul, Pontal do Paraná. 9Departamento de Biologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, R. Marques de São Vicente 225, Prédio Pe. Leonel Franca, CEP 22451-900, Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro. 10Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, Instituto de Biologia - Depto de Zoologia, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro. 11Depto. de Zoologia - ICB/ Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Av. José Lourenço Kelmer, s/n – Martelos, CEP 36036-330, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. Abstract: This review assesses the current knowledge of polychaetes from Brazil, focusing on its historical development, known diversity, available human resources and collections. Despite advances made over the last few decades, the diversity of polychaetes in Brazil remains poorly known, since most of the eight marine ecoregions in the country are not properly sampled. About 1,400 species of polychaetes are known from Brazilian waters, corresponding to 10 % of the valid species worldwide. Taxonomic training has increased, but the distribution of researchers along the extensive coast remains uneven, with stronger representation in the southeastern region. Current research shortcomings and suggestions to increase taxonomic training and knowledge of polychaetes in the country are presented and discussed. LANA et al. INTRODUCTION et al. (2013), besides the NONATObase (PAGLIOSA et al. 2014), also provided other relevant bibliographical lists. The first historical review on the polychaetes occurring along the Brazilian coast was made by NONATO (1964). Historical progress of polychaete research in Brazil He estimated that about 210 polychaete species had been The first work to deal specifically with the Brazilian reported from the area until 1960, but he did not consider polychaete fauna was carried out by JOHANN FRIEDRICH all of them valid. He also noted that there were no studies THEODOR MÜLLER, known as FRITZ MÜLLER (1858), a by that time on the biology and ecology of local species. German physician and naturalist, then living in the A decade later, the number of records increased to 300 former Ilha do Desterro (now Ilha de Santa Catarina), in species and 10 subspecies. NONATO & AMARAL (1976) Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. His paper described 13 made the first analysis on faunal differentiation along the new taxa, including notably the new genera Magelona, Brazilian coast and discussed biogeographic affinities, Isolda, Hermundura and Sigambra, all of them valid or pointing out the occurrence of cosmopolitan, amphi- recently resurrected. GERHARD HENRIK ARMAUER HANSEN, Atlantic, and endemic components. A new survey was an occasional polychaetologist much better known as the only done at the end of the 1990’s (AMARAL et al. 1998), in discoverer of the leprosy bacillus, described 42 species of which 750 species were recorded, most being considered as polychaetes from the Baía da Guanabara (Rio de Janeiro), cosmopolitan or pantropical. At the same time, a regional almost all of them considered by him as new (HANSEN review showed 467 species for the coast of São Paulo, in 1882). HANSEN was meritoriously the first researcher to SE Brazil (AMARAL & MORGADO 1999). Later, the catalogue recognize the high endemic rate of the polychaete fauna of AMARAL & NALLIN (2004) mentioned about 800 species from Brazil, a fact that has only been noticed in recent and the most recent version (AMARAL et al. 2013) together years. JOHAN GUSTAF HJALMAR KINBERG, a physician and with the online NONATObase database (PAGLIOSA et zoologist that was part of the crew of the Swedish expedition al. 2014), list 1,341 species from Brazilian waters. This in the frigate Eugenie, collected biological material in the estimate includes new taxa described recently, due to an South Atlantic, between Rio de Janeiro and the Strait of increased interest in polychaete studies, together with Magellan, from the end of 1851 to the beginning of 1852. species mistakenly identified in previous surveys and not HARTMAN (1948) later revised the important collection yet formally described or named. In the last decade, some studied by KINBERG (1858, 1910). A serious problem that regional taxonomical syntheses were presented (LANA et affects most of these pioneer works, excluding the species al. 2006, ALMEIDA et al. 2012, ASSIS et al. 2012, PAGLIOSA studied by KINBERG or HARTMAN, now at the Swedish and et al. 2012). In spite of that, the polychaete faunas of the Danish Museums, is the unfortunate loss or poor state of states of São Paulo and Paraná, in Southeastern Brazil preservation of type-material. marine ecoregion (according to SPALDING et al. 2007), are by far the best known in the country, because most of the Few of the oceanographic expeditions from the second currently active researchers work there. half of the 19th century collected biological samples along the Brazilian coast. NONATO (1964) made the first inventory We present herein a first synthesis of the available of the main studies resulting from these expeditions, literature, together with an evaluation of the status of which sampled mainly the northern and northeastern polychaete research in Brazil, but without providing coasts. He listed the scientific results of the expeditions an exhaustive list of the Brazilian polychaete literature, from the Challenger (MCINTOSH 1885), Plankton (REIBISH although most of the taxonomic papers on the local fauna 1893, 1895; APSTEIN 1900) and Meteor (AUGENER 1931, are included in the bibliographic section. Although we FRIEDERICH 1950 a,b). After the 1960´s, JACQUES-YVES have not included most of the abstracts and unpublished COUSTEAU´s Calypso (RULLIER & AMOUREUX 1979) made contributions, a significant part of the current knowledge one of the few expeditions with polychaetological outputs. on polychaetes from Brazil is only available as grey In the first half of the 20th century, scattered references literature of limited or regional diffusion. The emphasis to scolecodonts or recent polychaetes were mostly made by of the bibliographic list is on the literature produced by Brazilian or foreign researchers without a strict specialization Brazilian polychaetologists, but relevant works produced on the group. As examples, we may cite GLIESCH (1925), abroad on the Brazilian fauna are equally included. LANA LUDERWALDT (1929), LANGE (1942, 1947, 1949, 1950), et al. (1996), AMARAL & MORGADO (1999) and AMARAL OLIVEIRA (1950) and CAMARGO (1955). The pioneer works by 2 Polychaetes in Brazil: people and places, past, present and future. TREADWELL (1920, 1923, 1932), on new species from the coast still in progress and increasing. Until the mid 1990’s, of São Paulo, by EVELYNE DU