Notaulax pyrrhogaster ( Grube, 1878 )

Veeraiyan, Bharathidasan, Tovar-Hernández, María Ana, Palanivel, Partha Sarathy, Palanisamy, Selvaraj & Perumal, Murugesan, 2022, New records of sclerozoan fan worms in Acropora sp. from the Gulf of Mannar, south-eastern coast of India (Annelida: Sabellidae), Journal of Natural History 56 (33 - 36), pp. 1365-1381 : 1372

Notaulax pyrrhogaster ( Grube, 1878)

( Figures 2 (c), 2(a–2), 6(a–i))

Sabella pyrrhogaster Grube, 1878: 250–252 , pl. 15, fig. 1. – Wiktor 1980: 280.

Eurato pyrrhogaster . – Saint-Joseph 1894: 249.

Notaulax pyrrhogaster . – Perkins 1984: 328. – Tovar-Hernández et al. 2020a: 28, 31–32, figs 9–10.

Examined material

India – Vaan Island, Gulf of Mannar, state of Tamil Nadu, district of Tuticorin , 8.841135537679804 N, 78.2219779167134 E, coral reef, seaweed and seagrass patches in sand, 0–1 m deep, 8 May 2018, 2 specimens (ZSI/ MARC / P8363 ) .

Figures

Figure 2. Blocks of dead Acropora sp. coral and its sclerozoan fan worms. (a, b) Radiolar crown of Acromegalomma quadrioculatum (Willey, 1905), circled in yellow; (c) bore in longitudinal section of Notaulax pyrrhogaster (Grube, 1878).