Alkmaria romijni
Alkmaria romijni is a small species, only up to 5 mm long, which live in shallow brackish water. It has only been found once in Norway.
Type locality
Alkmaarder Meer, Netherlands
Key characters
Measurements: Up to 5 mm long
Number of thoracic chaetigers: 16
Number of thoracic uncinigers: 13
Number of abdominal uncinigers: 13–19
Prostomium: With two longitudinal ridges and one pair of eyespots
Mouth tentacles: Smooth
Branchiae: Three pairs of branchiae in two groups located close together at mid-dorsum; branchiae in each group arranged in triangles and connected at bases
Paleae: Absent
Special features: None
Pygidium: Without cirri or papillae
Tube: Very thin, transparent layer of organic secretion incrusted with small sand grains and silt.
Remarks
In Norway, Alkmaria romijni has only been found at Øra in Fredrikstad. The species inhabits shallow brackish waters, a habitat rarely sampled for small worms, so it might be overlooked.
Similar species
Alkmaria romijni is a small-sized species. The small size makes it difficult to see characters and the species can be confused with other small-sized species and juvenile specimens of larger ampharetids.
Sources
Holthe T (1986a). Polychaeta Terebellomorpha. Marine Invertebrates of Scandinavia 7: 1-192.
Horst R (1919). Twee sedentaire Polychaeten uit he brakke water var Nederland. Zoologische Mededeelingen, Leiden 5: 100-102. http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318667
Jirkov IA (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian). Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press. Moscow, 632 pp.
Personal observations, Alvestad T.
Siden siteres som
Alvestad T og Budaeva N (2020). Alkmaria romijni Horst, 1919. www.artsdatabanken.no/Pages/288794. Nedlastet <dag/måned/år>