Spirobranchus richardsmithi Pillai 2009
Description
Spirobranchus richardsmithi Pillai, 2009
(Fig. 28 C)
Spirobranchus richardsmithi Pillai, 2009: 154 –158, figs 41A–N, 42A–H, 43A–K [Kimberley, WA].
Spirobranchus gardineri not Pixell, 1913.— Smith 1985: 43–47, fig. 3I –L [Lizard Island, Australia; partim, variant types 1 and 2 only]; Fiege & ten Hove 1999: 362–363 [in part; discussion and mention of 2 taxa under this name; the material from Hainan Island belongs to Sp. richardsmithi]; Fiege & Sun 1999: 126, fig. 15A, B [Hainan Island, China].
Material examined. AM W.41735, Yonge Reef, 14°35'S, 145°37'E, in Millepora sp., coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41740, Yonge Reef, back reef, 14°36'S, 145°37'E, on Sp. gardineri, coll. R. Smith, 7 Nov 1985; AM W.41743, same, in Porites sp., coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41744, same, in Millepora, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41745, same, in Millepora, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41750, same, coll. R. Smith, 6 Nov 1985; AM W.41803, same, in Millepora, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41807, same, in Millepora, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41828, same, in Millepora, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41914 (many), same, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41918, same in Millepora, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41956 (2), same, in Porites lichen, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.45427, MI QLD 2447; SAM E3610 (as S. gardineri), Ser92, stn.G231, Coconut Beach, 14°41'S, 145°28'E, scuba, coll. G. Rouse & E. Kupriyanova, 26 Oct 2005; ZMA V.Pol. 4829 (3), stn.18, lagoon near east entrance, sheltered side of reef, near sandy bottom, 2–20 m, coll. H. ten Hove, 3 Mar 1986; ZMA V.Pol. 4830 (2, det HtH 1986 as Sp. gardineri -complex), stn.17, Palfrey Island, south of lighthouse, 14°40'S, 145°28'E, coral heads on sandy bottom, 7 m, coll. H. ten Hove, P. Hutchings & M. Reid, 2 Mar 1986.
Diagnosis. Opercular plate bearing a column ending in a pair of latero-dorsal spines with tips almost curving upright and a bifid medio-ventral spine with tips recurving towards opercular plate. Latero-dorsal spines each bear three short spinules, one single located latero-ventrally and clearly recurving towards opercular plate, the other pair located sub-terminally, not recurving. Peduncle with wide distal wings with entire edge (no processes).
Remarks. See remarks under Sp. gardineri.
Distribution. Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Serpulidae
- Genus
- Spirobranchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Sabellida
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- Pillai
- Species
- richardsmithi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Spirobranchus richardsmithi Pillai, 2009 sec. Kupriyanova, Sun, Hove, Wong & Rouse, 2015
References
- Pillai, T. G. (2009) Descriptions of new serpulid polychaetes from the Kimberleys of Australia and discussion of Australian and Indo-West Pacific species of Spirobranchus and superficially similar taxa. Records of the Australian Museum, 61, 93 - 199. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.61.2009.1489
- Pixell, H. L. M. (1913) Polychaeta of the families Serpulidae and Sabellidae, collected by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 49, 347 - 358. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0080456800003987
- Smith, R. S. (1985) Photoreceptors of Serpulid polychaetes. 3 Vols. Doctoral Dissertation, James Cook University, 539 pp. [http: // researchonline. jcu. edu. au / 24188 /]
- Fiege, D. & Hove, H. A. ten (1999) Redescription of Spirobranchus gaymardi (Quatrefages, 1866) (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Indo-Pacific with remarks on the Spirobranchus giganteus complex. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 126, 355 - 364. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1999. tb 01376. x
- Fiege, D. & Sun, R. (1999) Polychaeta from Hainan Island, South China Sea Part I: Serpulidae. Seckenbergiana Biologia, 79, 109 - 141.
- Hartmann-Schroder, G. (1986) Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Sudkuste Australiens (zwischen Wallaroo im Westen und Port MacDonnell im Osten). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 83, 31 - 70.