A new species and nine new records of Syllidae (Annelida) from the Socotra Archipelago (Indian Ocean)
Author
Rodríguez, Yolanda Lucas
Author
Martín, Guillermo San
Author
Fiege, Dieter
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-05
4651
2
235
258
journal article
26091
10.11646/zootaxa.4651.2.2
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Myrianida pachycera
(
Augener, 1913
)
Autolytus pachycerus
Augener, 1913: 257–260
, pl. 2, fig. 11, 12, text-fig. 40A–C; 1927: 157–158.—
Nygren & Sundberg 2003
: GenBank sequences, 16S rDNA partial sequence
AF474258
, and 18S rDNA partial sequence
AF474304
.
Myrianida pachycera
Imajima 1966b: 79–82
, fig. 26A–L.—
Imajima 1967: 417
.
Myrianida pachycerus
Hartman 1966: 362–363
, fig. 1A–B.
Autolytus purpureimaculata
Okada 1933: 332–338
, figs. 6–11; 1937.—
Imajima & Hartman 1964: 100
.
Myrianida crassicirrata
Hartmann-Schröder, 1965: 119–121
, figs. 47–49.
Material examined.
Socotra
,
Samhah Island
, intertidal, amongst algae,
12º10’99N
/
53º04’23E
, algae,
07.04.2000
,
1 specimen
(
SMF
24995)
.
Remarks.
One female specimen with 28 segments up to beginning of the stolons,
3.8 mm
long,
0.64 mm
wide, yellowish coloration, cirri with same length along the body up to formation of stolon. A line of five stolons attached in different stages of maturation. Specimen very fragile. Four red eyes arranged in open trapezoidal arrangement. Nuchal epaulettes not visible. Palps fused along all their length. No ciliation observed in dorsal view. Median antenna thick, flat reaching almost chaetiger 10. Lateral antennae and ventral tentacular cirri 1/2 length of median antenna. Lateral antennae and tentacular cirri cylindrical, annulated. Almost all cirri lost on left side. First dorsal cirri similar in length to lateral antennae. Second dorsal cirri ¾ length of median antenna, thick and flat. Cirri 3 to 8 alternate in length short/long and in thick/flat shape. Schizogamous reproduction by gemmiparity, behind either chaetiger 31 or 34 (
Nygren, 2004
).
Habitat.
Intertidal, shallow depths, together with rich epifauna (
Nygren, 2004
); in
Socotra
also amongst algae.
Distribution.
East Indian Ocean, Pacific, West Atlantic.
Australia
,
Japan
, Hawaii, California, Florida (
Nygren, 2004
).