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Streptosyllis Webster & Benedict 1884

  • 1. Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece Department of Biology, University of Crete, 71409 Heraklion, Crete, Greece Corresponding author. E-mail: arvanitidis @ her. hcmr. gr

Description

Genus Streptosyllis Webster & Benedict 1884

Streptosyllis Webster & Benedict, 1844: 711.

Streptosyllis - San Martín, 2003: 120.

Streptosyllis - San Martín & Hutchings, 2006: 354–355.

Type species: Streptosyllis arenae Webster & Benedict, 1884.

Diagnosis: Body small. Four eyes, occasionally anterior pair of eyespots present. Palps fused at base, occasionally reduced to small papillae. Anterior parapodia with modified compound chaetae; sometimes with enlarged aciculae. Dorsal simple chaetae present, ventral simple chaetae absent. Compound chaetae homogomph or hemigomph, falcigerous, occasionally spinigerous. Dorsal cirri smooth, pseudoarticualated or articulated with granular inclusions. Ventral cirri digitiform, sometimes longer than parapodial lobe. Pharynx unarmed with crown of soft papillae. Pygidium with one median and two lateral anal cirri.

Notes

Published as part of Faulwetter, Sarah, Vasileiadou, Aikaterini, Papageorgiou, Nafsika & Arvanitidis, Christos, 2008, Description of a new species of Streptosyllis (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from the Mediterranean and Canary Islands with a re-description of Streptosyllis arenae and comments on the taxonomy of Streptosyllis and some morphologically similar genera, pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 1847 on page 2

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References

  • Webster, H. E. & Benedict, J. E. (1884) The Annelida Chaetopoda from Provincetown and Wellfleet, Mass. Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1881, 699 - 747.
  • San Martin, G. (2003) Annelida, Polychaeta II: Syllidae. In: Ramos, M. A. et al. (Eds.). Fauna Iberica Vol. 21. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. CSIC. Madrid. 554 pp.
  • San Martin, G. & Hutchings, P. (2006) Eusyllinae (Polychaeta, Syllidae) from Australia with the description of a new genus and fifteen new species. Records of the Australian Museum, 58, 257 - 370.