Syllidae (Annelida) from the Alborán Sea (Western Mediterranean), with the description of a new species of Paraehlersia San Martín, 2003
Author
Prado, Ainhoa
Departamento de Biología (Genética), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, calle Darwin 2, Canto Blanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
Author
Martín, Guillermo San
Departamento de Biología (Zoología), Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio global (CIBC-UAM), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, calle Darwin, 2, Canto Blanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
text
Zootaxa
2024
2024-04-11
5437
1
87
104
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5437.1.5
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5437.1.5
1175-5326
10959306
1D2A6EBD-A64D-4A77-8455-DEE05D92909A
Genus
Paraehlersia
San Martín, 2003
Diagnosis
(after
San Martín & Aguado, 2022
): Dorsal ciliary bands on segments. Palps basally fused. Antennae, tentacular cirri, and anterior dorsal cirri wrinkled or irregularly articulated depending on body size; other dorsal cirri smooth. Pharyngeal tooth positioned anteriorly. Parapodia with digitiform, retractile papilla between parapodial lobe and dorsal cirrus. Compound chaetae including one or more with spiniger-like blades and several with bidentate falcigerous blades with both teeth similar in anterior segments and proximal tooth usually longer and robust than distal tooth, marked depending on the species. Aciculae acuminate. Reproduction by epigamy.
Type
species:
Ehlersia ferrugina
Langerhans, 1881
.