Revision ofChoneKr⊘yer, 1856 (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) from North America and descriptions of four new species

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The present study deals with the revision of type and non‐type material from 12 species of Chone Kr⊘yer, 1856 Kr⊘yer, H. 1856. Bidrag til Kundskab af Sabellerne.. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger, 1856: 1–36. [Google Scholar] (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) that have been described from North America: C. albocincta Banse, 1972 Banse, K. 1972. Redescription of some species of Chone Kröyer and Euchone Malmgren, and three new species (Sabellidae, Polychaeta).. Fishery Bulletin and Wildlife Service, USA Department of Interior, 70: 459–495. [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar] , C. aurantiaca (Johnson, 1901 Johnson, H. P. 1901. The Polychaeta of the Puget Sound region.. Proceedings of the Boston Society for Natural History, 29: 381–437. [Google Scholar] ), C. bimaculata Banse and Nichols, 1968 Banse, K. and Nichols, F. H. 1968. Two new species and three new records of benthic polychaetes from Puget Sound (Washington).. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 81: 223–230. [Google Scholar] , C. ecaudata (Moore, 1923 Moore, J. P. 1923. The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U.S.S. “Albatross” off the coast of southern California in 1904, 4. Spionidae to Sabellariidae.. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 75: 179–259. [Google Scholar] ), C. gracilis Moore, 1906 Moore, J. P. 1906. Descriptions of two new Polychaeta from Alaska.. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1906: 352–355. [Google Scholar] , C. magna (Moore, 1923 Moore, J. P. 1923. The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U.S.S. “Albatross” off the coast of southern California in 1904, 4. Spionidae to Sabellariidae.. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 75: 179–259. [Google Scholar] ), C. minuta Hartman, 1944 Hartman, O. 1944. Polychaetous annelids from California, including the descriptions of two new genera and nine new species.. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 10: 239–307. [Google Scholar] , C. mollis (Bush in Moore, 1904), C. picta (Verrill, 1885 Verrill, A. E. 1885. Notice of recent additions to the marine Invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others, 5. Annelida, Echinodermata, Hydroida, Tunicata.. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 8: 424–448. [Google Scholar] ), C. princei McIntosh, 1916 McIntosh, W. C. 1916. Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, 38. 1. On the British Sabellidae. 2. On the Sabellidae dredged by H.M.S. “Porcupine” in 1869 and 1870, and by H.M.S. “Knight Errant” in 1882. 3. On the Terebellidae and Sabellidae dredged in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada by Dr. Whiteaves in 1871–73. 4. On the Sabellidae dredged by Canon A.M. Norman in Norway and Finmark.. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 17: 1–66. [Google Scholar] , C. ungavana Chamberlin, 1920 Chamberlin, R. V. 1920. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–18. 9: Annelids, parasitic worms, protozoan, etc. Part B: Polychaeta, 1–41. Ottawa: Thomas Mulvey. [Google Scholar] , and C. veleronis Banse, 1972 Banse, K. 1972. Redescription of some species of Chone Kröyer and Euchone Malmgren, and three new species (Sabellidae, Polychaeta).. Fishery Bulletin and Wildlife Service, USA Department of Interior, 70: 459–495. [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar] ; 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 Langerhans, P. 1880. Die Wurmfauna Madeiras, 2.. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 33: 271–316. [Google Scholar] ; 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.