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
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Faulwetter, Sarah
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Chatzigeorgiou, Georgios
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Galil, Bella S.
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Arvanitidis, Christos
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Prosphaerosyllis longipapillata (
Hartmann-Schroeder
, 1979)
Sphaerosyllis longipapillata
Hartmann-Schroeder
, 1979: 106, figs 148-150; 1982: 71; 1984: 23; 1985: 71; 1986: 43; 1991: 40;
Cinar
et al. 2003
: 757, fig. 5.
Prosphaerosyllis longipapillata
:
San
Martin
2005
: 61, figs 17
a-g
, 18
a-h
.
Material examined.
Haifa Bay, Israel: ALA-IL-7 (2 ind.) [coll. 11.10.2009].
Comparative
Material examined.
Prosphaerosyllis longipapillata
(
Hartmann-Schroeder
, 1979)(Department of Hydrobiology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, specimen reported in
Cinar
etal. 2003, Cyprus, Station D13: 1 individual [Label:
Prosphaerosyllis longipapillata
, Cyprus]).
Type locality.
Broome, north-west Australia.
Distribution.
Australia, Mediterranean Sea: LB. New record for the Israeli coast.
Habitat.
Intertidal to 466 m depth (
San
Martin
2005
), euryoceous, found on hard substrates with
Sargassum vulgare
(
Cinar
etal. 2003,
San
Martin
2005
).
Remarks.
The specimens from Israel agree well with the material and description of
Cinar
et al., 2003). However, both the material from Cyprus and Israel, as well as the description and illustrations of
San
Martin
(2005)
, differ from
Hartmann-Schroeder's
(1979) original description by the presence of dorsal papillae on the anterior chaetigers.
Hartmann-Schroeder
(1979)
reports "four long, threadlike papillae at the height of the parapodia and from chaetiger 7 onwards in pairs in a dorsal row between the parapodia". Furthermore, the Mediterranean material differs from the original description of
Prosphaerosyllis longipapillata
and from San
Martin's
(2005) description by having alternating rows of long and short papillae on the dorsum (
Cinar
et al. 2003
, fig. 5). These two characteristics are reported however for
Prosphaerosyllis bilineata
(Kudenov and Harris, 1995) from California. To determine the identity of the Mediterranean material and whether
Prosphaerosyllis bilineata
and
Prosphaerosyllis longipapillata
are different species or not, careful examination of all type material is needed.