Haplosyllis carmenbritoae Lattig, San Martín & Martin, 2007

Lattig, Patricia & Martin, Daniel, 2009, A taxonomic revision of the genus Haplosyllis Langerhans, 1887 (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Syllinae), Zootaxa 2220, pp. 1-40 : 13

Haplosyllis carmenbritoae Lattig, San Martín & Martin, 2007

Haplosyllis carmenbritoae Lattig, San Martín & Martin, 2007: 557 –561, fig. 3–4.

Examined material. Canary Islands. Holotype MNCM 16.01/10645; 6 Paratypes MNCM 16.01/10646. Eastern coast of Tenerife, January, 1982.

Diagnosis. Body up to 3 mm long for 20–25 segments. After proventricle dorsal cirri slightly alternating with long (10–15 articles) and short (5–11 articles). Two chaetae per parapodia, longest one with straight and long MJP; long spines on US of MF. Pharynx much slender than proventricle.

Reproduction. Unknown.

Host. Collected from a Dendrophyllia ramea assemblage, but probably not in association with the coral.

Distribution. E Atlantic, Canary Islands.

Remarks. Haplosyllis carmenbritoae closely resembles H. djiboutiensis from the Red Sea by the body shape. However, H. djiboutiensis has short dorsal cirri that do not exceed body width, and lack long denticles on US of MF, characteristic of H. carmenbritoae .