Syllis cruzi Núñez & San Martín, 1991

Núñez, Jorge & Martín, Guillermo San, 2024, Syllidae Grube, 1850 (Annelida) from Conception, Amanay and Banquete Banks off Canary Islands, with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 5477 (1), pp. 43-65 : 55

Syllis cruzi Núñez & San Martín, 1991

Syllis cruzi Núñez & San Martín, 1991: 238 , fig. 2; Núñez et al. 1992: 118, fig. 1 e, 4 g –i; Çinar & Ergen 2003: 780, fig. 2; San Martín 2003: 397, figs. 217–218; Álvarez-Campos et al. 2015: 309 , figs. 5, 6.

Typosyllis cruzi . Licher 1999: 169–171, fig. 75.

Material examined. INFUECO stations: BC3 0611, 2 specimens, 80 m depth; BC8 0611, 1 specimen, 235 m depth; BC1 0710, 1 specimen, 109 m depth; BC7 0710, 2 specimens, 270 m depth.

Habitat. In the Canary Islands it has been collected in circalittoral bottoms, in the community of orange corals, Dendrophyllia ramea , until a little over 100 m depth ( Núñez & San Martín 1991) , and endobiont of sponges in shallow waters ( San Martín 2003) to about 115 m depth. In the present study, it was collected on samples from up to 270 m depth .

Distribution. Atlantic Ocean (Canary Islands), Mediterranean Sea, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Queensland) ( Álvarez-Campos et al. 2015).