Parasphaeropsyllis indica
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Ordo: Aciculata
Familia: Syllidae
Genus: Parasphaeropsyllis
Name
Parasphaeropsyllis indica Monro, 1937 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Parasphaeropsyllis indica Rioja 1958[1]:246–251, figs. 21, 22, 26, 27.–Westheide 1974[2]:64–66, figs. 27–29.–San Martín 1991[3]:234.–1994[4]:130.
Material examined
BMMQ205, (19); BMLV101, (8); GCET103, (22), inside dead Millepora alcicornis, 1–2 m depth; BMPL398, (24), associated with Aplysina fistularis, 1–3 m depth.
Description
Length to 9.5 mm,width 0.6 mm. Body slender with up to 106 chaetigers. Prostomium with two pairs of lentigerous eyes in trapezoidal arrangement. Median antenna with 18–21 articles, lateral ones with 13–15 articles. Dorsal tentacular cirri with 32–51 articles, ventral ones with 18–23 articles. Dorsal cirri alternating longer, with 21–33 articles, and shorter, with 19–22 articles. Large, ovoid dorsal cirri with small distal button, from chaetigers 24. Dorsal simple chaeta with blunt end and subdistally serrated (Fig. 4.8). Compound falcigers bidentate and serrated (Fig. 4.9). Ventral simple chaeta bidentate, slender. Acicula subdistally enlarged, with acuminate, oblique tip (Fig. 4.10). Pharynx extending through 6 chaetigers, with 10 marginal papillae encircling anterior tooth. Proventriculus extending through 3–5 chaetigers, with 25–28 rows of muscle cells.
Distribution
Circumtropical.
Taxon Treatment
- Liñero-Arana, I; Díaz Díaz, O; 2011: Syllidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Caribbean coast of Venezuela ZooKeys, 117: 1-28. doi
Other References
- ↑ Rioja E (1958) Estudios anelidológicos. XXII. Datos para el conocimiento de la fauna de anélidos poliquetos de las costas orientales de México. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 29:219-301.
- ↑ Westheide W (1974) Interstitielle Fauna von Galapagos. 11. Pisionidae, Hesionidae, Pilargidae, Syllidae (Polychaeta). Mikrofauna des Meeresbodens 44: 195–338.
- ↑ San Martín G (1991) Syllinae (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science 48 (2):227-235.
- ↑ San Martín G (1994) Autolytinae (Polychaeta, Syllidae) from Cuba and north American Atlantic Ocean. Mémoires du Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle 162:167-196.
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