Syllis westheidei San Martin , 1984

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 : 294

Syllis westheidei San Martin, 1984

Syllis westheidei San Martín, 1984b: 403, figs 108-109; 2003: 436, figs 240-241; Çinar 1999: 310, fig. 4.141.

Typosyllis westheidei : Licher 2000: 111, fig. 51; Böggemann and Westheide 2004: 418.

Typosyllis variegata : Westheide 1974a: 51, figs 21-22. (Non Syllis variegata Grube, 1860).

Material examined.

Alykes, Crete, Greece: CALB-15d-08 (1 ind.) [coll. 17.6.2008].

Type locality.

Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean Sea).

Distribution.

Pacific Ocean ( Galápagos Islands), Red Sea, Mediterranean: WB, CB, AD, AS. New record for the Greek coast.

Habitat.

Shallow subtidal depths, on hard substrates, among photophilic algae, in Posidonia oceanica rhizomes and vermetid reefs.