Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Hong Kong
Author
Sun, Yanan
Author
Ten, Harry A.
Author
Qiu, Jian-Wen
text
Zootaxa
2012
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1
42
journal article
44544
10.5281/zenodo.213363
c58609dc-73f9-4d52-a073-77bf2739dc04
1175-5326
213363
Protula bispiralis
(
Savigny, 1822
)
(
Figure 3
K–O)
Serpula bispiralis
Savigny, 1822
: 75
.
Protula magnifica
Straughan, 1967
: 41
.
Protula bispiralis
—
Day 1967
: 818
; ten
Hove 1994
: 109
;
Pillai 2009
: 99
.
Spirobranchus
sp.
not
Blainville, 1818
,
sensu
Scott 1984
fig. 22.
Material examined.
AM W41409,
1 specimen
(
22°22’N
,
114°17’E
, Sharp Island, in crevice of rocks,
6 m
,
May 21, 2009
).
Description.
TUBE: white, circular in cross-section, rugose outside. Collar-like rings and medial keel absent. Up to
10 mm
wide, lumen diameter
0.8 mm
.
BRANCHIAE: branchial crown consisting of up to 80 radioles on each side, arranged in spiral with three whorls. Radioles with short pinnules and filiform tips; joined for one-third of their length (
Figure 3
K). Branchial eyes absent.
PEDUNCLE: absent.
OPERCULUM: absent.
COLLAR AND THORACIC MEMBRANES: collar trilobed; thoracic membranes well developed, extending past chaetiger
7 in
apron across anterior abdominal chaetigers.
THORAX: with 7 chaetigers. Collar chaetae and other thoracic notochaetae limbate capillaries (
Figure 3
L–M),
Apomatus
-chaetae not observed. Thoracic uncini absent.
ABDOMEN: abdominal neurochaetae faintly sickle-shaped, with finely serrated blade (
Figure 3
N). Abdominal uncini rasp-shaped with 2 to 4 rows of teeth and 22 teeth in profile view and rounded peg (
Figure 3
O).
SIZE: length up to
79 mm
, width of thorax
8.5 mm
.
COLOUR: living worm with a pinkish branchial crown, colour in formalin pale yellow.
Habitat.
Depth:
6 m
.
In coral sand or rock-crevices.
Distribution.
Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific.
Remarks.
The present specimen agrees with the description of
Day (1967)
except that uncini are missing in all thoracic chaetigers, rather than in just the first three.
Protula bispiralis
is considered to be a species complex (ten
Hove & Kupriyanova 2009
).
Scott (1984: 26, fig. 22)
gave a good colour photograph of the branchial crown but erroneously identified the specimen as
Spirobranchus
sp.