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Syllis cruzi Nunez & San Martin 1991

  • 1. Laboratorio de Bentos, Departamento de Biología Animal, Edafología y Geología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La Laguna, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Description

Syllis cruzi Núñez & San Martín, 1991

Syllis cruzi Núñez & San Martín, 1991: 238, fig. 2; Núñez et al. 1992: 118, fig. 1 e, 4 g –i; Çinar & Ergen 2003: 780, fig. 2; San Martín 2003: 397, figs. 217–218; Álvarez-Campos et al. 2015: 309, figs. 5, 6.

Typosyllis cruzi. Licher 1999: 169–171, fig. 75.

Material examined. INFUECO stations: BC3 0611, 2 specimens, 80 m depth; BC8 0611, 1 specimen, 235 m depth; BC1 0710, 1 specimen, 109 m depth; BC7 0710, 2 specimens, 270 m depth.

Habitat. In the Canary Islands it has been collected in circalittoral bottoms, in the community of orange corals, Dendrophyllia ramea, until a little over 100 m depth (Núñez & San Martín 1991), and endobiont of sponges in shallow waters (San Martín 2003) to about 115 m depth. In the present study, it was collected on samples from up to 270 m depth.

Distribution. Atlantic Ocean (Canary Islands), Mediterranean Sea, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Queensland) (Álvarez-Campos et al. 2015).

Notes

Published as part of Núñez, Jorge & Martín, Guillermo San, 2024, Syllidae Grube, 1850 (Annelida) from Conception, Amanay and Banquete Banks off Canary Islands, with the description of two new species, pp. 43-65 in Zootaxa 5477 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/12681470

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Syllidae
Genus
Syllis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Phyllodocida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Nunez & San Martin
Species
cruzi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Syllis cruzi Nunez, 1991 sec. Núñez & Martín, 2024

References

  • Nunez, J. & San Martin, G. (1991) Two new species of Syllidae (Polychaeta) from Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). Bulletin of Marine Science, 48 (2), 236 - 241.
  • Nunez, J., San Martin, G. & Brito, M. C. (1992) Syllinae (Polychaeta, Syllidae) de las Islas Canarias. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias, 4 (3 & 4), 109 - 129.
  • Cinar, M. E. & Ergen, Z. (2003) Eusyllinae and Syllinae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Northern Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) with a checklist of species reported from the Levant Sea. Bulletin of Marine Science, 72 (3), 769 - 793.
  • San Martin, G. (2003) Familia Syllidae. In: Ramos, M. A. (Ed.), Annelida, Polychaeta II. Fauna Iberica. Vol. 21. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, pp. 1 - 554.
  • Alvarez-Campos, P., Riesgo, A., Hutchings, P. & San Martin, G. (2015) The genus Syllis Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida, Syllidae) from Australia. Molecular analysis and re-description of some poorly-known species. Zootaxa, 4052 (2), 297 - 331. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4052.3.2
  • Licher, F. (1999) Revision der Gattung Typosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (Polychaeta: Syllidae). Morphologie, Taxonomie und Phylogenie. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 551, 1 - 336.