Sphaerosyllis hirsuta Ehlers, 1897

Sphaerosyllis hirsuta Ehlers, 1897: 48, pl. 3, figs. 58–60; San Martín 2005: 99, figs. 55, 56.

Material examined. Station 8 (1) and station 36 (5) (LBUV).

Distribution. Widely distributed through all Pacific Ocean, from Japan and Kurile Islands, to New Zealand and Patagonia (Chile) in South.

Habitat. Widely distributed on all kind of substrates: dead corals, algae, encrusting organisms, seagrasses. Sand; intertidal to 45 m (San Martín 2005). Inside tubes of Chaetopterus cf. variopedatus in fjords and channels of Patagonia. Salinity: from 20 to 35 PSU, temperature: from 8.01 to 10°C.