Sphaerosyllis taylori
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Ordo: Aciculata
Familia: Syllidae
Genus: Sphaerosyllis
Name
Sphaerosyllis taylori Perkins, 1981 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Sphaerosyllis (Sphaerosyllis) taylori Núñez et al. 1992[1]:49–50.
- Sphaerosyllis taylori Perkins 1981[2]:1140, fig. 26a–k.–Uebelacker 1984[3]:29–31, fig. 22a–f.–Ruiz-Ramírez and Salazar-Vallejo 2001[4]:131–134, fig. 6(115–122).–San Martín and Bone 2001[5]:614.–San Martín 2003[6]:206–208, fig. 108.–Russell 2007[7]:71–72.
Material examined
PAPC106, (2), coarse sand, 2 m depth; GCLB104, (8), coarse sand near Trypanosyllis testudinum bed, 0.5–1.3 m depth.
Description
Length to 2.4 mm, width to 0.18 mm. Body broad, with up to 24 chaetigers. Small scattered papillae on dorsum and parapodia. Antennae clavate. Prostomium with two pairs of lentigerous eyes in slightly trapezoidal arrangement. Palps fused. Dorsal cirri clavate, absent from chaetiger 2, replaced by papillae. Dorsal simple chaeta slender, curved (Fig. 2.1), from chaetiger 1, with minute serrations on anterior chaetigers. Anterior dorsal compound falcigers unidentate with serrated edges (Fig. 2.2), posterior ones with few coarse serrations (Fig. 2.3); median and ventral chaetae with smooth blades. Smooth, slender ventral simple chaeta, only present on posterior chaetigers (Fig. 2.4). Acicula stout with curved tip (Fig. 2.5). Pharynx extending through 3 chaetigers, with dorsal tooth located on anterior margin; proventriculus through 2 chaetigers with 17–19 rows of muscle cells. Pygidium with a pair of anal cirri and dorsal papillae.
Distribution
Galapagos Islands, Black Sea, North Atlantic (North Sea to Canary Islands), Mediterranean, Connecticut, Maryland, 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
- ↑ Núñez J, San Martín G, Brito M (1992) Exogoninae (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from the Canary Islands. Scientia Marina 56:43-52.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ San Martín G (2003) Annelida, Polychaeta II: Syllidae. In: Ramos M (Eds) Fauna Ibérica, vol. 21. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. CSIC, Madrid, 554 pp.
- ↑ 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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