Sphaerosyllis bulbosa Southern, 1914

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 : 291

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

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scientific name

Sphaerosyllis bulbosa Southern, 1914
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Sphaerosyllis bulbosa Southern, 1914

Sphaerosyllis bulbosa Southern, 1914: 20, plates I–II, figs 2 a–g; Fauvel, 1923: 304, figs. 116 h–r; Cognetti 1961: 30; Rullier 1972: 69; Campoy 1982: 276; Parapar et al. 1994: 98, fig. 4; Çinar et al. 2003: 756; San Martin 2003: 191, figs 98-99.

Sphaerosyllis (Sphaerosyllis) bulbosa : Hartmann-Schröder 1996: 175.

Material examined.

Haifa Bay, Israel: ALA-IL-7 (4 ind.), ALA-IL-10 (51 ind.) [coll. 11.10.2009].

Type locality.

Ireland (Atlantic Ocean).

Distribution.

North-east Atlantic, Arctic Sea ( Ramos et al. 2010), New Caledonia ( Rullier 1972). Mediterranean Sea: WB, CB, AD, AS, LB, BS ( Surugiu 2005).New record for the Israeli coast.

Habitat.

Until 70 m depth, in sandy or muddy sediments, on calcareous substrates.

Remarks.

The examined material differs from the description of San Martín (2003) in having papillated palps.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Phyllodocida

Family

Syllidae

Genus

Sphaerosyllis