Streptosyllis Webster & Benedict, 1884, emended

Musk, Will, Faulwetter, Sarah & McIlwaine, Paul, 2016, First record of Streptosyllisnunezi Faulwetter et al., 2008 (Annelida, Syllidae) from the United Kingdom, and amendment to the genus Streptosyllis Webster & Benedict, 1884, ZooKeys 583, pp. 1-11 : 3

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.582.8006

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:393DF68A-94F4-470C-A100-6F36CB5D7A0B

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/64A3E3EF-1BE1-938C-67AB-722B06380F59

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scientific name

Streptosyllis Webster & Benedict, 1884, emended
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Phyllodocida Syllidae

Genus Streptosyllis Webster & Benedict, 1884, emended View in CoL

Streptosyllis Webster & Benedict, 1884: 711

Streptosyllis - San Martín 2003: 120

Streptosyllis - San Martín and Hutchings 2006: 354

Streptosyllis - Faulwetter et al. 2008: 2

Type species.

Streptosyllis arenae Webster & Benedict, 1884.

Diagnosis.

Body small. Four eyes, occasionally anterior pair of eyespots present. Palps fused at base, occasionally reduced to small papillae. Anterior parapodia with modified compound chaetae; sometimes with enlarged aciculae. Dorsal simple chaetae present, simple ventral capillary chaetae may be present in posteriormost chaetigers. Compound chaetae homogomph or hemigomph, falcigerous or spinigerous. Dorsal cirri smooth, pseudoarticulated or articulated with granular inclusions. Ventral cirri digitiform, sometimes longer than parapodial lobe. Pharynx unarmed with crown of soft papillae. Pygidium with one median and two lateral anal cirri.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Phyllodocida

Family

Syllidae