Eusyllinae (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from Australia with the Description of a New Genus and Fifteen New Species
Author
San Martin, G
Author
Hutchings, PA
text
Records of the Australian Museum
2006
58
257
370
journal article
2201-4349
Genus
Nudisyllis
Knox & Cameron, 1970
Nudisyllis
Knox & Cameron, 1970: 77
, emended.
Type
species
.
Nudisyllis tinihekea
Knox & Cameron, 1970
.
Diagnosis
. Body small, fragile, <
5 mm
in length. Prostomium large, about width of 2 segments, with 4 eyes and sometimes pair of anterior eyespots. Three antennae. Palps separated, free from each other, sometimes adjacent at base. Median antenna inserted on middle of prostomium or anteriorly, on line with lateral antennae. Two pairs of tentacular cirri. Nuchal organs as 2 ciliated grooves between prostomium and peristomium. Dorsal cirri on all chaetigers, long, cylindrical, smooth or slightly rugose. Ventral cirri not modified. Compound chaetae with both unidentate and bidentate blades on same parapodium, or all unidentate; bidentate blades having proximal tooth small, spine-like.
Fig. 17.
Nudisyllis tinihekea
Knox & Cameron, 1970
(
A
) anterior end, dorsal view; (
B
) posterior end, dorsal view; (
C
) compound chaetae, midbody;(
D
) dorsal simple chaeta; (
E
) acicula; (
F
) ventral simple chaeta. Scales:
A,B
68 µm;
C–F
20 µm.
emended the diagnosis and the genus now includes some species previously considered belonging to
Pionosyllis
, among them
P. pulligera
(
Krohn, 1852
)
;
P. magnidens
Day, 1953
; and
P. divaricata
(Keferstein, 1862)
.