Opisthosyllis brunnea Langerhans, 1879

Faulwetter, Sarah, Chatzigeorgiou, Georgios, Galil, Bella S. & Arvanitidis, Christos, 2011, An account of the taxonomy and distribution of Syllidae (Annelida, Polychaetes) in the eastern Mediterranean, with notes on the genus Prosphaerosyllis San Martin, 1984 in the Mediterranean, ZooKeys 150, pp. 281-326 : 292

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.150.2146

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scientific name

Opisthosyllis brunnea Langerhans, 1879
status

 

Opisthosyllis brunnea Langerhans, 1879

Opisthosyllis brunnea Langerhans, 1879: 541, fig. 7; Augener 1918: 274, text-fig. 25; Tebble 1956: 90, figs 5 d–e; Day 1967: 253, figs 12.5 c–e. Hartmann-Schröder 1979: 86; 1980b: 48; 1981: 24; 1982: 58; 1991: 25, fig. 19; Fauchald 1977:20, fig. 5; San Martín 1984b: 311, figs 75-76; 2003: 330, fig. 183; Çinar 1999: 237, fig. 4.99; Amaral et al. 2005: 164, figs a–e on same page; Abd-Elnaby 2009: 15, plate 3-16, figs 3 g–h.

Material examined.

Elounda, Crete, Greece: CELA-1d-07 (1 ind.) [coll. 29.9.2007], CELA-5d-08 (1 ind.) [coll. 12.6.2008].

Type locality.

Madeira (Atlantic Ocean).

Distribution.

Circumtropical. Mediterranean Sea: WB, CB, AS, LB. New record for the Greek coast.

Habitat.

Intertidal to shallow subtidal, on hard substrates (vermetid reefs, among photophilic algae), endobiont of sponges.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Phyllodocida

Family

Syllidae

Genus

Opisthosyllis