Buskiella
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Sedentaria |
| Order: | Terebellida |
| Family: | Flotidae |
| Genus: | Buskiella McIntosh, 1885 |
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Buskiella is a genus of pelagic polychaete annelids placed either in the family Flotidae or Flabelligeridae. In appearance, they are generally bluish or yellowish, depending on lighting conditions, and live exclusively in very deep water. They move by swinging their bodies from side to side, "rowing with [their] bristles."[1] Species have nine to eleven chaetigers (chaeta-bearing segments)[1]
Appearance
Buskiella abyssorum
Buskiella abyssorum are covered by a transparent mucus sheath. Like flabelligerid worms, they have a cephalic cage, a structure of long, slender chaetae forming a fan-like structure around the head. They also have prominent, well-developed parapodia.[2][3]
The species was first described by McIntosh in 1885 from deep waters off Sierra Leone.[3][1] It has since been reported in the same area, as well as further out in the Atlantic ocean.[1]
Buskiella flabelligera
Buskiella flabelligera was first described as Flota flabelligera by Olga Hartman in 1967.
Buskiella flabelligera have less than ten segments and are covered by a thick mucus sheath. They are covered with papillae, especially[2] Bioluminescence reported from this species, spanning length of the body but with distinctly brighter spots.[4]
Buskiella vitjasi
Taxonomic history
- 1967: Genus Flota described with one species (F. flabelligera) in the family Flabelligeridae by Olga Hartman in her "Polychaetous Annelids Collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island Cruises, Chiefly from Antarctic Seas"
- 1971: Genus transferred by Hartman into the newly-erected Fauveliopsidae.
- 1977: A second species, F. vitjasi, is described by Galina N. Buzhinskaja.
- 1996: Flota placed in new family, Flotidae, erected by Buzhinskaja.
- 2001: Rouse considers Flota very close to Poeobiidae, and placed both in Flabelligeridae. He also considered the family Flotidae "redundant".[5]
- 2006: Buzhinskaja defends the family status of Flotidae and re-establishes it.
- 2007: Flota species are transfered to within Buskiella.
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Salazar-Vallejo, S. I.; Zhadan, A. E. (Jan 2007). "Revision of Buskiella McIntosh, 1885 (including Flota Hartman, 1967), and description of its trifid organ (Polychaeta: Flotidae)". Invertebrate Zoology. 4 (1): 65–82. doi:10.15298/invertzool.04.1.06. ISSN 1812-9250 – via ResearchGate.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fauchald, Kristian (1977). The polychaete worms : definitions and keys to the orders, families, and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. OCLC 913009658. Search this book on
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Zhadan, A. E., and A. B. Tzetlin. "Polychaetes from deep pelagic zone of the Mid-Atlantic ridge." Invertebr. Zool 5 (2008): 97-109.
- ↑ Francis, Warren R.; Powers, Meghan L.; Haddock, Steven H. D. (2016-11-17). "Bioluminescence spectra from three deep-sea polychaete worms". Marine Biology. 163 (12): 255. doi:10.1007/s00227-016-3028-2. ISSN 1432-1793.
- ↑ Buzhinskaja, Galina N. (2006). "On the morphology of the genus Flota Hartman, 1967 and corroboration of the family status of Flotidae Buzhinskaja, 1996 (Polychaeta)" (PDF). Zoosystematica Rossica. St. Petersburg, Russia. 15 (1).
