Autolytus longstaffi Ehlers, 1912

Nygren, Arne, 2004, Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta)., Zootaxa 680, pp. 1-314 : 191

Autolytus longstaffi Ehlers, 1912

Autolytus longstaffi Ehlers, 1912: 19 –21, pl. 2, fig. 6, 11; Hartman 1964: 78, pl. 24, fig. 3.? Autolytus longstaffi Wesenberg­Lund 1961: 67 –68.

Distribution. Antarctic.

Remarks. Types do not exist. Description of male and female stolons. Male of Proceraea ­ type, with 2 pairs of tentacular cirri, achaetous knobs, 6 chaetigers in region a, and thick type of bayonet chaetae. Female with 6 chaetigers in region a as interpreted from illustration ( 5 according to Ehlers' description), tentacular cirri and achaetous knobs not mentioned, chaetae of same type as in male. Wesenberg­Lund ( 1961) briefly describes an atokous form with developing stolons behind chaetiger 11–13, that may or may not be A. longstaffi . Autolytus longstaffi could be the stolons to several Proceraea ­taxa.