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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Sphaerosyllis taylori Perkins, 1981
Sphaerosyllis taylori
Perkins, 1981: 1140, fig. 26;
Uebelacker 1984
: 29, figs 21-22;
San
Martin
1984b
: 247, fig. 58; 2003: 206, fig. 108;
Russell 1991
: 71;
Nunez
et al. 1992
: 49;
Parapar et al. 1994
: 99;
Simboura 1996
: 53, fig. 6;
San
Martin
and Bone 2001
: 614;
Cinar
1999
: 161, fig. 4.58;
Ruiz-Ramirez
and Salazar-Vallejo 2001
: 131, fig. 6 (115-122);
Cinar
et al. 2003
: 759;
Linero-Arana
and
Diaz-Diaz
2011: 9, figs 2.1-2.5 in online material.
Material examined.
Haifa Bay, Israel: ALA-IL-1 (1 ind.); ALA-IL-2 (33 ind.) [coll. 31.5.2009]; ALA-IL-7 (103 ind.), ALA-IL-10 (14 ind.) [coll. 11.10.2009].
Type locality.
Florida, Hutchinson Island.
Distribution.
North-east and north-west Atlantic (North Sea to Canary Islands, east coast of the U.S. to Venezuela), Pacific Ocean (
Galapagos
Islands) (
Linero-Arana
and
Diaz-Diaz
2011), Arctic Sea (
Ramos et al. 2010
), Mediterranean Sea: WB, CB, AD, AS, BS, LB (
Abd-Elnaby and San
Martin
2010
). New record for the Israeli coast.
Habitat.
Shallow subtidal depths, in muddy to coarse sands with organic material, on rocks among photophilic or calcareous algae, among
Posidonia oceanica
rhizomes.