Syllis cornuta
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Ordo: Aciculata
Familia: Syllidae
Genus: Syllis
Name
Syllis cornuta Rathke, 1843 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Syllis (Ehlersia) cornuta Fauvel 1923[1]:267, fig. 100g–1.
- Langerhansia cornuta Imajima 1966[2]:256, fig. 51a–o.
- Syllis (Langerhansia) cornuta Day 1967[3]:244, fig. 12.2.s–u; 1973[4]:29.–Gardiner 1976[5]:140, fig. 12o–s.–Uebelacker 1984[6]:120–122, fig. 114a–f.
- Syllis cornuta Pettibone 1963[7]:118, figs. 31i, j.
Material examined
BMIL297, (37); (2), BMIL397; BMIL498, (18), all specimens associated with Aplysina fistularis, 1–3 m depth; BMPL297, (10); BMPL398, (3), all specimens associated with Ircinia felix 1–2 m depth.
Description
Length to 29.5 mm,width 0.77 mm. Body with up to 107 chaetigers. Prostomium with a pair of anterior eyespots and two pairs of eyes in trapezoidal arrangement. Median antenna with 11–27 articles; lateral ones with 9–20 articles. Palps long, fused basally. Dorsal tentacular cirri with 11–19 articles, ventral ones with 7–16 articles. Dorsal cirri on anterior chaetigers with 7–33 articles, 5–25 articles medially. Dorsal compound spiniger chaetae, finely serrated, present from chaetiger 1 (Fig. 3.19). Compound falcigers bidentate, serrated with small subterminal tooth (Fig. 3.20). Stout, bifid, dorsal simple chaeta with subdistal serrations (Fig. 3.21) and bidentate ventral simple chaeta (Fig. 3.22) both only present on posterior chaetigers. Pharynx extending through 6–12 chaetigers, with a crown of ten soft papillae and middorsal subterminal tooth. Proventriculus extending through 4–6 chaetigers, with 36–48 rows of muscle cells. Pygidium with a pair of anal cirri with 18–28 articles and midventral digitiform cirrus.
Distribution
Cosmopolitan.
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
- ↑ Fauvel P (1923) Polychètes errantes. Faune de France 5:1-488.
- ↑ Imajima M (1966) The Syllidae (Polychaetous Annelids) from Japan. I. Exogoninae. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 13:385-404.
- ↑ Day J (1967) A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt. 1 Errantia. Pt. 2. Sedentaria. British Museum of Natural History Publications 656:1-878.
- ↑ Day J (1973) New Polychaeta from Beaufort with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. NOAA Technical Reports NMFS CIRC 375:1-140.
- ↑ Gardiner S (1976) Errant polychaete annelids from North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 91:77-220.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Pettibone M (1963) Marine polychaete worms of the New England Region. 1. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 227:1-356.
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