Sphaerosyllis piriferopsis
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Ordo: Aciculata
Familia: Syllidae
Genus: Sphaerosyllis
Name
Sphaerosyllis piriferopsis Perkins, 1981 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Sphaerosyllis piriferopsis Perkins 1981[1]:1133, figs. 23a–f, 24a–i.–Uebelacker 1984[2]:31–33, fig. 24a–f.–Ruiz-Ramírez and Salazar-Vallejo 2001[3]:130–131, fig. 5(98–107).–San Martín and Bone 2001[4]:613.–Russell 2007[5]:66–69, fig. 7.
Material examined
PAPC106, (12), coarse sand near Trypanosyllis testudinum bed, 0.5–1.3 m depth; BMER103, (8), fine to coarse sand, 1 m depth.
Description
Length to 2.8 mm, width to 0.15 mm. Body slender, with up to 40 chaetigers. Papillae short scattered. Antennae clavate. Prostomium with two pairs of lentigerous eyes in trapezoidal arrangement. Palps fused dorsally. Dorsal cirri clavate, absent on chaetiger 2, replaced by papillae. Dorsal simple chaeta stout, present on all chaetigers. Dorsal compound falcigers unidentate with serrated blades (Fig. 1.25). Ventral falcigers smooth or with few serrations (Fig. 1.26) Slender ventral simple chaeta, only present on posterior chaetigers. Acicula enlarged subdistally, with curved, pointed tip (Fig. 1.27). Pharynx extending through 3–4 chaetigers, with anterior dorsal tooth. Proventriculus extending through 2 chaetigers, with 10–15 rows of muscle cells. Pygidium with a pair of anal cirri and several dorsal and ventral papillae.
Distribution
Bahamas, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Belize, Venezuela.
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
- ↑ Perkins T (1981) Syllidae (Polychaeta), principally from Florida, with descriptions of a new genus and twenty–one new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 93 (4):1080-1172.
- ↑ Uebelacker J (1984) Family Syllidae Grube, 1850. In: Uebelacker J Johnson P (Eds) Taxonomic Guide to the Polychaetes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Barry A Vittor & Assoc., Inc., Mobile, Alabama, IV, 1–151.
- ↑ Ruíz-Ramírez J, Salazar-Vallejo S (2001) Revista de Biología Tropical 49 (1):117-140.
- ↑ San Martín G, Bone D (2001) Syllidae (Polychaeta) de praderas de Thalassia testudinum en el Parque Nacional Morrocoy (Venezuela). Revista de Biología Tropical 49 (2):609-620.
- ↑ Russell D (2007) Exogoninae (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from the Belizean barrier reef with a key to species of Sphaerosyllis. Journal of Natural History 25 (1):49-74. doi: 10.1080/00222939100770061
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