Malacoceros cariacoensis Delgado-Blas & Díaz-Días, 2010

Delgado-Blas, Victor Hugo & Salazar-Silva, Patricia, 2011, Taxonomic catalogue of the Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Grand Caribbean, Zootaxa 2782, pp. 39-66 : 46

Malacoceros cariacoensis Delgado-Blas & Díaz-Días, 2010

Malacoceros cariacoensis Delgado-Blas & Díaz-Díaz, 2010: 251 –253, fig. 1a–0.

Type locality. Turpialito, Venezuela

Type material. Holotype (LACM-AHF POLY 2241), paratypes (ECOSUR-100), paratypes (LBP-0050). Records. Only known from type locality.

Malacoceros indicus ( Fauvel, 1928)

Scolelepis indica Fauvel, 1928: 93 –94, figs 2g, 3 h–i.

Malacoceros (Malacoceros) indicus .— Foster, 1971b: 50 –52.— Foster, 1971b: 1455 –1456, fig. 1–6. Malacoceros indicus .— Blake & Kudenov, 1978: 195.

Type locality. Krusadai Island, Gulf of Manaar, Indian Ocean.

Type material. Syntype ( BMNH 1928.4.26.4).

Records. Bahamas: South Mid Month of Creek, North Tohas Bay. Puerto Rico: Ponce, Arecibo ( Foster 1971b).

Remarks. Foster (1971a) redescribed the syntype of M. indicus . However, there are differences in morphology among Caribbean specimens and the syntype. Notopodial and neuropodial lamellae from Gulf of Mexico specimens are different in shape to the lamellae from M. indicus from the type locality ( Fauvel 1928). The record of this species from the Grand Caribbean is questionable. We believe that the specimens recorded as this Indian Ocean species are likely to represent other species.