Opisthosyllis brunnea
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
Faulwetter, Sarah
Chatzigeorgiou, Georgios
Galil, Bella S.
Arvanitidis, Christos
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Langerhans, 1879
Langerhans
1879
Polychaeta
Syllidae
Opisthosyllis
CoL
Animalia
Opisthosyllis brunnea
Phyllodocida
11
292
Annelida
species
brunnea
Opisthosyllis brunneaLangerhans, 1879: 541, fig. 7; Augener 1918: 274, text-fig. 25; Tebble 1956: 90, figs 5 d-e; Day 1967: 253, figs 12.5 c-e. Hartmann-Schroeder1979: 86; 1980b: 48; 1981: 24; 1982: 58; 1991: 25, fig. 19; Fauchald 1977:20, fig. 5; San Martin1984b: 311, figs 75-76; 2003: 330, fig. 183; Cinar1999: 237, fig. 4.99; Amaral et al. 2005: 164, figs a-eon same page; Abd-Elnaby 2009: 15, plate 3-16, figs 3 g-h.
Material examined. Elounda, Crete, Greece: CELA-1d-07 (1 ind.) [coll. 29.9.2007], CELA-5d-08 (1 ind.) [coll. 12.6.2008].
Type locality. Madeira (Atlantic Ocean).
Distribution. Circumtropical. Mediterranean Sea: WB, CB, AS, LB. New record for the Greek coast.
Habitat. Intertidal to shallow subtidal, on hard substrates (vermetid reefs, among photophilic algae), endobiont of sponges.