Five colour morphs and three new species of Gyptis (Hesionidae, Annelida) under a jetty in Edithburgh, South Australia

• Published in: Zoologica scripta Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 89 - 99
• Main Authors: Pleijel, Fredrik, Rouse, Greg, Nygren, Arne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2009
• Subjects: Annelida; Biological Sciences; Biologiska vetenskaper; Gyptis; Hesionidae; Marine; Australia, South Australia; ISW, Australia, South Australia

We report five different colour morphs of the hesionid polychaete genus Gyptis co‐occurring in a small area in shallow water under Edithburgh jetty, South Australia. The five morphs cannot be separated using standard morphological features, but phylogenetic analyses of sequence data (COI and ITS1) u...