New records of sabellids and serpulids (Polychaeta: Sabellidae, Serpulidae) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific
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Bastida-Zavala, J. Rolando
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Buelna, Alondra Sofía Rodríguez
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León-González, Jesús Angel De
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Camacho-Cruz, Karla Andrea
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Carmona, Isabel
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Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4184.3.1
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Vermiliopsis multiannulata
(
Moore, 1923
)
(
Figures
8
,
13
I)
Metavermilia multiannulata
Moore, 1923
: 251
–253, pl. 18, Fig. 48.
Type
locality: off Point Pinos Lighthouse, central
California
,
91–104 m
, green mud and rocks. Only the
holotype
belongs to the genus
Vermiliopsis
; the other specimens from the type-series, from San Nicolas
Island
,
Southern
California
, belong to
Pseudovermilia conchata
(see ten
Hove 1975
: 88
).
Vermiliopsis glandigerus
(not
Gravier, 1906
).—
Monro 1933b
: 1085
(
Coiba Island
,
Panamá
).
Vermiliopsis multiannulata
.—
Rioja
1941b
: 734
, pl. 9, Figs 27–36 (Acapulco,
Guerrero
, on algae)
;
Rioja
1942
: 130
(Mazatlán,
Sinaloa
, on rocks)
;
Rioja
1960
: 255
(Lozano
Bay
, Socorro
Island
,
on
Eucidaris thouarsii
spines and rocks);
Hartman 1961
: 45
(
Central and Southern California
, rocky habitats in shallow depths)
;
Rioja
1963
: 220
(Zihuatanejo,
Guerrero
; Puerto Vallarta,
Jalisco
; Topolobampo,
Sinaloa
; and Guaymas,
Sonora
);
Salazar-Vallejo & Londoño-Mesa 2004
: 57
(Tropical
Eastern
Pacific, checklist);
ten
Hove
& Kupriyanova 2009: 102 (worldwide serpulid checklist);
Tovar-Hernández
et al
. 2009b
: 333
,
Figs 3
n, 8g-j (fouling in Mazatlán,
Sinaloa
);
Dean
et al
. 2012
: 364
–365 (
Cocos Island
,
Costa Rica
); Villalobos-Guerrero
et al
. 2014: 107 (
Sinaloa
, checklist).
Vermiliopsis infundibulum
(not
Philippi
, 1844
).—
Hartman
1969
: 779
–780,
Figs
1–5
(
Southern California
, all figures were taken from
Fauvel
1927
: 364
, Faune de
France
);
Berkeley
&
Berkeley
1961
: 662
–663 (
Carmel Canyon
,
Southern California
;
24–48 m
)
;
Bailey-Brock
1976
: 77
–79 (Oahu
Island
,
Hawaii
;
200–600 m
)
.
Pseudovermilia conchata
(not
ten
Hove
, 1975).—
de
León-González
et al
. 1993: 879 (Puerto Escondido
Bay, Baja
California
Sur
, epifauna on the oyster “
Spondylus princeps unicolor
”;
30 m
);
Hernández-Alcántara
et al
. 2003
: 9 (Socorro
Island
, checklist).
cf.
Vermiliopsis multiannulata
.—
Dean 1996
: 84 (Golfo Dulce, Pacific coast of Costa Rica);
Dean 2004
: 165–166 (list of polychaetes from Costa Rica).
Vermiliopsis infundibulum glandigera
complex.—
López-García
et al
. 1997
: 67 (
Coiba Island
,
Panamá
, on dead corals);
Bastida-Zavala
2008: 53, fig. 13D (
Baja
California
Sur
and
Oaxaca
;
6–30 m
);
Bastida-Zavala
et al
. 2013
: 349 (Oaxaca, checklist).
Material examined.
13 specimens.
Baja
California
Sur
:
UMAR-Poly 828-OH, 10 spec. (Caleritas Beach,
La Paz Bay
,
March 1, 2006
, coll. DHP
et al
.); UMAR-Poly 829 (Mexican Pacific, probably Concepción
Bay
, sta. 173, no more data).
Michoacán
:
UMAR-Poly 830 (
Caleta de Campos
, on sabellariid tubes,
December 17, 1994
, coll. RBZ).
Oaxaca
:
UMAR-Poly 831 (Puerto Ángel, on rocks,
April 18, 2009
, coll. JLR).
Habitat.
Subtidal (
6–104 m
,
Moore 1923
);
Bailey-Brock (1976)
recorded specimens from
200–600 m
, from Oahu,
Hawaii
; it is possible that these would prove to be a species different from
Vermiliopsis multiannulata
. In rock pools and on sabellariid tubes, also on spiny oysters “
Spondylus princeps unicolor
” (de
León-González
et al
. 1993
)
and
S. limbatus
(Bastida-Zavala 2008)
.
Distribution.
California
(
Moore 1923
),
Hawaii
(
Bailey-Brock 1976
), and Tropical
Eastern
Pacific, from Punta San Juanico, western coast of
Baja
California
Sur
to
Panamá
(
Rioja
1941b
;
López-García
et al
. 1997
; Bastida-
Zavala 2008
).
Remarks.
The status of
Vermiliopsis multiannulata
was rather confused,
type
specimens and historical records are a mix of
V. multiannulata
,
Pseudovermilia occidentalis
and
P. conchata
ten
Hove, 1975
(Bastida-Zavala 2008: 54)
.
Vermiliopsis multiannulata
sensu stricto
is part of the
V. infundibulum
/
glandigerus
/pygidialis
complex (ten
Hove & Kupriyanova 2009
: 102), that can only be solved with a thorough revision of the genus, including morphological and molecular characters and ecological aspects. For the Tropical
Eastern
Pacific we have used the local name
V. multiannulata
, following the suggestion of
Tovar-Hernández
et al
. (2009b
: 333). One of the reasons for this is that our taxon occurs infrequently in fouling samples from marinas and ports, a main dispersal mode for exotic species, and it is thus less likely that it has arrived as result of anthropogenic activities.