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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Trypanosyllis coeliaca
Claparede
, 1868
Trypanosyllis coeliaca
Claparede
1868
: 513, pl. 13, fig. 3;
Fauvel 1923
: 270, figs 101
f-h
;
Cognetti 1957
: 27, fig. 5a; 1961: 296,
Hartmann-Schroeder
1979
: 78;
Perkins 1981
: 1155, figs 33-34;
Campoy 1982
: 354;
Uebelacker 1984
: 93, fig. 88;
San
Martin
1984b
: 274, fig. 63; 2003: 308, figs 169-170;
Arvanitidis 1994
: 109;
Cinar
1999
: 316, fig. 4.144;
Cinar
and Ergen 2003
: 789.
Pseudosyllis brevipennis
Grube, 1863: 44, pl. 4, fig. 5.
Material examined.
Haifa Bay, Israel, eastern Mediterranean Sea, Station ALA-IL-7 (1 ind.) [coll. 11.10.2009]. Alykes, Crete, Greece: CALA-10b-08 (1 ind.), CALB-10c-08 (1 ind.) [coll. 17.6.2008]; CALA-5a-08 (1 ind.), CALB-1d-08 (2 ind.), CALB-5a-08 (1 ind.) [coll. 18.6.2008]. Elounda, Crete, Greece: CELA-15b-07 (1 ind.), CELA-15c-07 (1 ind.) [coll. 26.9.2007]; CELB-5c-07 (1 ind.), CELA-10a-07 (1 ind.), CELB-10c-07 (1 ind.) [coll. 27.9.2007]; CELB-1a-07 (2 ind.), CELB-1e-07 (1 ind.) [coll. 29.9.2007]; CELB-10b-08 (1 ind.), CELA-15a-08 (1 ind.) [coll. 17.6.2008]; CELB-1b-08 (1 ind.), CELA-5b-08 (1 ind.), CELA-5c-08 (1 ind.), CELB-5c-08 (1 ind.), CELA-5d-08 (2 ind.) [coll. 18.6.2008].
Type locality.
Gulf of Naples (western Mediterranean Sea).
Distribution.
Circumtropical. Mediterranean Sea: WB, CB, AD, AS, LB. New record for the Israeli coast.
Habitat.
From infralitoral depths to 760 m, on hard substrates, among algae, corals, hydrozoans, sponges and
Posidonia oceanica
rhizomes, in vermetid reefs, in coarse sand.
Remarks.
Specimens from Greece have a faint or no visible trepan. Individuals without trepan but otherwise identical to
Trypanosyllis coeliaca
have in the past been identified as
Pseudosyllis brevipennis
Grube, 1863, but according to
San
Martin
(2003)
the absence of the trepan can be attributed to a number of reasons, including loss, and
Pseudosyllis brevipennis
is regarded as a synonym of
Trypanosyllis coeliaca
.