Salvatoria clavata ( Claparede , 1863)

Linero-Arana, Ildefonso & Diaz Diaz, Oscarn, 2011, Syllidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, ZooKeys 117, pp. 1-28 : 4

Salvatoria clavata ( Claparede, 1863) Figs 1.15-1.17

Grubea clavata Fauvel 1923:296-298, fig. l14 a–e.

Brania clavata Pettibone 1963:133, fig. 35b.- Imajima 1966:393, fig. la–g.– Taylor, 1971:198 –200.– Gardiner 1976:130, fig. 10 l–n.– Uebelacker 1984:16-19, figs. 10 a–e.– Russell 2007:51-52.

Salvatoria clavata San Martín 2003:176-181, figs. 89 –93.– Gobin 2010 (list only).

Material examined.

BMIL197, (23); BMIL498, (18); BMPL398, (2), all specimens associated with Aplysina fistularis , 1-3 m depth; BMIL397, (50); BMPL398, (13); BMPL501, (14), all specimens associated with Ircinia felix , 1-2m depth; GCPG198, (6), on artificial substrate (PVC pipes), 1 m depth.

Description.

Length to 3.8 mm width to 0.4 mm. Body small, slender; complete specimens with up to 33 chaetigers. Prostomium with two pairs of lentigerous eyes on posterior region of prostomium and two ocular spots near posterior base of palps. Subulate enlarged antennae. Palps fused dorsally. Tentacular and dorsal cirri fusiform. Dorsal tentacular cirri about twice length of ventral ones. Ventral cirri digitiform. Dorsal simple chaeta bidentate with subdistal serrations (Fig. 1.15). Compound bidentate falcigers with serrated blades (Fig. 1.16). Bidentate ventral simple chaeta subdistally serrated, only present on posterior chaetigers (Fig. 1.17). Pharynx extending through 4 chaetigers, with anterior rhomboidal dorsal tooth. Proventriculus extending through 3-4 chaetigers, with 19-22 rows of muscle cells. Pygidium with a pair of cirriform anal cirri.

Distribution.

Africa, Mediterranean, Yellow Sea, Japan, Okhotsk Sea, Bering Sea, North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Belize, Caribbean Sea.