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Syllides Orsted 1845

Description

Genus Syllides Örsted, 1845

Syllides Örsted, 1845: 408.

Type species. Syllides longocirrata Örsted, 1845, designated by Hartman, 1959.

Diagnosis. Body small, short, with relatively few segments. Prostomium with 4 eyes, typically pair of anterior eyespots. Three antennae. Palps fused basally, without median furrow, sometimes ending with small papilla. Two pairs of tentacular cirri. Nuchal organs as 2 ciliated grooves between prostomium and peristomium. Antennae, tentacular cirri, and dorsal cirri of chaetigers 1 and 2, smooth, nonarticulated, club-shaped to fusiform; dorsal cirri from chaetiger 3 onwards, distinctly articulated, with glandular inclusions on some articles. Ventral cirri digitiform. Compound chaetae heterogomph with blades slender, usually bidentate. Dorsal simple chaetae from anterior segments, usually from chaetiger 1. Ventral simple chaetae present in some species. Pharynx unarmed, with crown of soft papillae. Reproduction by epigamy, some species brood eggs ventrally (Heacox & Schroeder, 1978).

Notes

Published as part of San Martin, G & Hutchings, PA, 2006, Eusyllinae (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from Australia with the Description of a New Genus and Fifteen New Species, pp. 257-370 in Records of the Australian Museum 58 on page 358

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Syllidae
Genus
Syllides
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Phyllodocida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Orsted
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Syllides Orsted, 1845 sec. Martin & Hutchings, 2006

References

  • Orsted, A. E., 1845. Ueber die Entwicklung der Jungen bei einer Annelide und uber anveren Untersuchiede zwischen beiden Geschlechtern. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte Berlin 11 (1): 20 - 23.
  • Hartman, O., 1959. Catalogue of the polychaetous annelids of the world. Parts I, II (1959), and Supplement (1965). Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Papers 23: 1 - 828.