Acromegalomma Gil & Nishi 2017
Creators: name: Rebello, João Gabriel
name: Nogueira, João Miguel De Matos
name: Carrerette, Orlemir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Sabellidae
Acromegalomma

description: Key to Acromegalomma species described from Western Atlantic Ocean
1A. Collar dorsal margins not fused to faecal groove............................................................ .. 2
1B. Collar dorsal margins fused to faecal groove................................................................ 5
2A. Subdistal compound eyes only on dorsalmost pair of radioles.................................................. 3
2B. Subdistal compound eyes on most radioles, absent only in ventralmost............................................................................................... A. georgiense (Tovar-Hernández & Carrera-Parra, 2011)
3A. Ventral basal flanges absent............................................................................. 4
3B. Ventral basal flanges present............................................................. A. punctum sp. nov.
4A. All radioles with short tips....................................................... A. bioculatum (Ehlers, 1887)
4B. Dorsalmost radioles with long tips decreasing ventralwards................................................................................................. A. schwindtae Tovar-Hernández, de León-González & Bybee, 2017
5A. Interramal eyespots absent............................................................................. .. 6
5B. Interramal eyespots present....................................................... A. lobiferum (Ehlers, 1887)
6A. Ventral sacs present................................................................................... 7
6B. Ventral sacs absent.............................................................. A. heterops (Perkins, 1984)
7A. Inferior thoracic notochaetae Type C..................................................................... .. 8
7B. Inferior thoracic notochaetae Type A..................................................................... 10
8A. Caruncle present...................................................................................... 9
8B. Caruncle absent........................................... A. fauchaldi (Giangrande, Licciano & Gambi, 2007)
9A. Anterior peristomial ring exposed dorsally and laterally........................................ A. omenae sp. nov.
9B. Anterior peristomial not exposed........................................................ A. scutolenis sp. nov.
10A. Thoracic ventral shields entire............................. A. perkinsi (Tovar-Hernández & Salazar-Vallejo, 2006)
10B Thoracic ventral shields divided in two......................................................... A. josei sp nov.
description: Published as part of Rebello, João Gabriel, Nogueira, João Miguel De Matos & Carrerette, Orlemir, 2025, Description of four new species of Acromegalomma (Annelida, Sabellidae) from the Coast of Brazil (SW Atlantic), with comments on the morphological characters of the genus, pp. 72-104 in Zootaxa 5620 (1) on page 102, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5620.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/15219153