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
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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).