Sphaerosyllis thomasi San Martin 1984

Faulwetter, Sarah, Chatzigeorgiou, Georgios, Galil, Bella S. & Arvanitidis, Christos, 2011, An account of the taxonomy and distribution of Syllidae (Annelida, Polychaetes) in the eastern Mediterranean, with notes on the genus Prosphaerosyllis San Martin, 1984 in the Mediterranean, ZooKeys 150, pp. 281-326 : 292

Sphaerosyllis thomasi San Martin 1984

Sphaerosyllis thomasi San Martín, 1984b: 250, fig. 59; 2003: 199, figs 103-104; Arvanitidis 1994: 80; Çinar 1999: 163, fig. 4.60.

Material examined.

Haifa Bay, Israel: ALA-IL-7 (2 ind.) [coll. 11.10.2009].

Type locality.

Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean Sea).

Distribution.

Mediterranean Sea: WB, CB, AD, AS, LB. New record for the Israeli coast.

Habitat.

Shallow subtidal depths, in muddy to coarse sands, among Posidonia oceanica rhizomes.

Remarks.

The examined specimens agree well with the description of San Martín (2003), especially in the chaeteal structures, but in the Israeli specimens the dorsal cirri are as long as parapodial lobes in posterior and midbody chaetigers and only slightly shorter than parapodial lobe in anterior chaetigers (dorsal cirri shorter than parapodial lobe in San Martín’s (2003) description).