Revision of Chone Kroyer, 1856 (Polychaeta : Sabellidae) from north America and descriptions of four new species

摘要

The present study deals with the revision of type and non-type material from 12 species of Chone Kroyer, 1856 (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) that have been described from North America: C. albocincta Banse, 1972, C. aurantiaca (Johnson, 1901), C. bimaculata Banse and Nichols, 1968, C. ecaudata (Moore, 1923), C. gracilis Moore, 1906, C. magna (Moore, 1923), C. minuta Hartman, 1944, C. mollis (Bush in Moore, 1904), C. picta (Verrill, 1885), C. princei McIntosh, 1916, C. ungavana Chamberlin, 1920, and C. veleronis Banse, 1972; and the formal description of four new species: Chone eiffelturris n. sp., Chone paramollis n. sp., Chone quebecensis n. sp., and Chone trilineata n. sp. Chone princei is redescribed and transferred to the genus Jasmineira Langerhans, 1880; C. ungavana is declared incertae sedis; C. bimaculata is reinstated; C. minuta is synonymized with C. ecaudata, and C. mollis is recorded for the Pacific coast of Panama.