Synmerosyllis lamelligera (Saint-Joseph, 1886)

Núñez, Jorge & Martín, Guillermo San, 2024, Syllidae Grube, 1850 (Annelida) from Conception, Amanay and Banquete Banks off Canary Islands, with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 5477 (1), pp. 43-65 : 49

Synmerosyllis lamelligera (Saint-Joseph, 1886)

Pionosyllis lamelligera Saint-Joseph, 1887: 163 , pl. 8, figs. 30–38; Fauvel 1923: 28, fig. 110 a–g; Cognetti 1957: 41, fig., 2; Campoy 1982: 340; Hartmann-Schröder 1996: 161; Núñez & San Martín 1996: 210, fig. 4 k–m; San Martín 2003: 79, figs. 30–31.

Synmerosyllis lamelligera . San Martín, López & Aguado, 2009: 1491.

Material examined. INFUECO stations: BC2 0710, 1 specimen, 353 m depth; BC5 0710, 1 specimen, 237 m depth. INCOECO stations: BC3 0710 1 specimen, 220 m depth.

Habitat. The species is found in various hard substrates, calcareous concretions with the alga Lobophora variegata , and is common as endobiontic of demosponges ( Pascual & Núñez 1999). Its bathymetric range is from shallow depths to around 200 m depth. In the samples studied, the maximum depth was 353 m.

Distribution. Amphi-Atlantic species, from the coasts of France to the islands of Cape Verde and Cuba ( San Martín 2003; Núñez et al. 2005; San Martín et al. 2009).