Syllidae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia Author Aguado, M. Teresa Author Murray, Anna Author Hutchings, Pat text Zootaxa 2015 4019 1 35 60 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.5 d493fbfe-1444-4801-a13e-1faec03da75f 1175-5326 289475 40FE3B2F-C8A4-4384-8BA2-9FD462E31A8B Exogone africana Hartmann-Schröder, 1974 ( Fig. 5A ) Exogone verugera africana Hartmann-Schröder, 1974a: 137 , figs 164–168. Exogone (Exogone) africana .— San Martín 2005 : 143 –145, figs 90A–I, 91A–E; Çinar & Dagli 2012 : 105 –106, fig. 3. Material examined. AM W.45201, MI QLD 2437. Remarks. Specimen with brooding eggs, with natatory chaetae ( Fig. 5A ). San Martín (2005) includes in the diagnosis of Exogone that mature females carry eggs ventrally, and lack capillary notochaetae (natatory chaetae), which are, in contrast, present in mature males. However, this specimen is clearly a female brooding eggs ventrally and possesses natatory chaetae in midbody segments. Habitat. All kinds of substrates, in intertidal to shallow waters. Distribution. Angola , Namibia , Hawaii, Japan , Australia (all states), Mediterranean (alien species).