Revision of some coastal species of bitentaculate Cirratulidae (Annelida, Cirratulida) from the North-East Atlantic

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Grosse, Maël, Nygren, Arne, Capa, María (2026): Revision of some coastal species of bitentaculate Cirratulidae (Annelida, Cirratulida) from the North-East Atlantic. European Journal of Taxonomy 1076: 1-46, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1076.3304, URL: europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/3304/14544 Abstract.

The family Cirratulidae is a diverse group of benthic polychaetes with about 400 species described worldwide. Fifty-eight nominal species are recorded in Europe, but recent DNA analyses have revealed that between 83 and 96 additional species inhabit European benthic environments and probably most of them are still undescribed. In this paper, two historical species are re-described due to the lack of details about some relevant morphological characters in the original descriptions: Aphelochaeta marioni (Saint-Joseph, 1894) and Aphelochaeta mcintoshi (Southern, 1914) comb. nov.