Spirobranchus richardsmithi Pillai, 2009

Kupriyanova, Elena K., Sun, Yanan, Ten Hove, Harry A., Wong, Eunice & Rouse, Greg W., 2015, Serpulidae (Annelida) of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Zootaxa 4019 (1), pp. 275-353 : 337

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.13

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6108391

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scientific name

Spirobranchus richardsmithi Pillai, 2009
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Spirobranchus richardsmithi Pillai, 2009 View in CoL

( Fig. 28 View FIGURE 28. A C)

Spirobranchus richardsmithi Pillai, 2009: 154 View in CoL –158, figs 41A–N, 42A–H, 43A–K [Kimberley, WA].

Spirobranchus gardineri View in CoL not Pixell, 1913.— Smith 1985: 43–47, fig. 3I –L [Lizard Island, Australia; partim, variant types 1 and 2 only]; Fiege & ten Hove 1999: 362–363 [in part; discussion and mention of 2 taxa under this name; the material from Hainan Island belongs to Sp. richardsmithi View in CoL ]; Fiege & Sun 1999: 126, fig. 15A, B [Hainan Island, China].

Material examined. AM W.41735, Yonge Reef, 14°35'S, 145°37'E, in Millepora sp., coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41740, Yonge Reef, back reef, 14°36'S, 145°37'E, on Sp. gardineri , coll. R. Smith, 7 Nov 1985; AM W.41743, same, in Porites sp., coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41744, same, in Millepora , coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41745, same, in Millepora , coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41750, same, coll. R. Smith, 6 Nov 1985; AM W.41803, same, in Millepora , coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41807, same, in Millepora , coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41828, same, in Millepora , coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41914 (many), same, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41918, same in Millepora , coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.41956 (2), same, in Porites lichen , coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W.45427, MI QLD 2447; SAM E3610 (as S. gardineri ), Ser92, stn.G231, Coconut Beach, 14°41'S, 145°28'E, scuba, coll. G. Rouse & E. Kupriyanova, 26 Oct 2005; ZMA V.Pol. 4829 (3), stn.18, lagoon near east entrance, sheltered side of reef, near sandy bottom, 2–20 m, coll. H. ten Hove, 3 Mar 1986; ZMA V.Pol. 4830 (2, det HtH 1986 as Sp. gardineri -complex), stn.17, Palfrey Island, south of lighthouse, 14°40'S, 145°28'E, coral heads on sandy bottom, 7 m, coll. H. ten Hove, P. Hutchings & M. Reid, 2 Mar 1986.

Diagnosis. Opercular plate bearing a column ending in a pair of latero-dorsal spines with tips almost curving upright and a bifid medio-ventral spine with tips recurving towards opercular plate. Latero-dorsal spines each bear three short spinules, one single located latero-ventrally and clearly recurving towards opercular plate, the other pair located sub-terminally, not recurving. Peduncle with wide distal wings with entire edge (no processes).

Remarks. See remarks under Sp. gardineri .

Distribution. Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific.

SAM

South African Museum

ZMA

Universiteit van Amsterdam, Zoologisch Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Sabellida

Family

Serpulidae

Genus

Spirobranchus

Loc

Spirobranchus richardsmithi Pillai, 2009

Kupriyanova, Elena K., Sun, Yanan, Ten Hove, Harry A., Wong, Eunice & Rouse, Greg W. 2015
2015
Loc

Spirobranchus richardsmithi

Pillai 2009: 154
2009
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