Sphaerosyllis taylori Perkins, 1981

Linero-Arana, Ildefonso & Diaz Diaz, Oscarn, 2011, Syllidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, ZooKeys 117, pp. 1-28 : 6-7

Sphaerosyllis taylori Perkins, 1981 Figs 2.1-2.5

Sphaerosyllis (Sphaerosyllis) taylori Núñez et al. 1992:49-50.

Sphaerosyllis taylori Perkins 1981:1140, fig. 26 a–k.– Uebelacker 1984:29-31, fig. 22 a–f.– Ruiz-Ramírez and Salazar-Vallejo 2001:131-134, fig. 6(115 –122).– San Martín and Bone 2001:614.- San Martín 2003:206-208, fig. 108.- Russell 2007:71-72.

Material examined.

PAPC106, (2), coarse sand, 2 m depth; GCLB104, (8), coarse sand near Trypanosyllis testudinum bed, 0.5-1.3 m depth.

Description.

Length to 2.4 mm, width to 0.18 mm. Body broad, with up to 24 chaetigers. Small scattered papillae on dorsum and parapodia. Antennae clavate. Prostomium with two pairs of lentigerous eyes in slightly trapezoidal arrangement. Palps fused. Dorsal cirri clavate, absent from chaetiger 2, replaced by papillae. Dorsal simple chaeta slender, curved (Fig. 2.1), from chaetiger 1, with minute serrations on anterior chaetigers. Anterior dorsal compound falcigers unidentate with serrated edges (Fig. 2.2), posterior ones with few coarse serrations (Fig. 2.3); median and ventral chaetae with smooth blades. Smooth, slender ventral simple chaeta, only present on posterior chaetigers (Fig. 2.4). Acicula stout with curved tip (Fig. 2.5). Pharynx extending through 3 chaetigers, with dorsal tooth located on anterior margin; proventriculus through 2 chaetigers with 17-19 rows of muscle cells. Pygidium with a pair of anal cirri and dorsal papillae.

Distribution.

Galapagos Islands, Black Sea, North Atlantic (North Sea to Canary Islands), Mediterranean, Connecticut, Maryland, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Belize, Venezuela.