Spiraserpula karpatensis
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Ordo: Canalipalpata
Familia: Serpulidae
Genus: Spiraserpula
Name
Spiraserpula karpatensis Pillai & ten Hove, 1994 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Spiraserpula karpatensis Pillai & ten Hove 1994:64–65, Figs 3N, 11A–K.
Type locality
Karpata, Bonaire.
Material examined
Venezuela. One incomplete specimen and one empty tube (UMML 22.1055), RV Pillsbury, cruise 6806, sta. 745, North of Los Roques Islands, 11°58'N, 66°50'W, 10-feet otter trawl, 65 m, July 24, 1968.
Description
Empty tube larger (Fig. 7E) than occupied one attached to empty tubes of Spiraserpula ypsilon. Tubes sinuous or spiraled, with two internal ridges: mid-dorsal one smooth, mid-ventral one serrated (Fig. 7E). Both tubes white, internal and externally (Fig. 7E). The branchial crown and thorax of incomplete specimen is missing. Abdomen partially transparent, with double packets of gametes in each segment (Fig. 7F).
Distribution
Eastern Caribbean. Bonaire, Curaçao and Los Roques Islands.
Ecology
Sublittoral, 65 m. On coral debris. Pillai and ten Hove (1994)[1] recorded the species from depths of 10–30 m. The sample also contained two Spiraserpula species: Spiraserpula ypsilon and Spiraserpula sp., a chaetopterid tube, a lumbrinerid and several empty tubes of serpulids resembling Protula and Vermiliopsis.
Remarks
Spiraserpula karpatensis resembles Spiraserpula caribensis with regard to the dorsal and ventral ridges (Fig. 7C, E); however, Spiraserpula karpatensis does not possess pinkish tubes unlike Spiraserpula caribensis.
Taxon Treatment
- Bastida-Zavala, R; 2012: Serpula and Spiraserpula (Polychaeta, Serpulidae) from the Tropical Western Atlantic and Gulf of Guinea ZooKeys, 198: 1-23. doi
Other References
- ↑ Pillai T, ten Hove H (1994) On recent species of Spiraserp'ula Regenhardt, 1961, a serpulid polychaete genus hitherto known only from Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London, Zoology Series 60 (1): 39-104.
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