Syllis alternata Moore, 1908

Martínez, María José & Martín, Guillermo San, 2020, Syllidae (Annelida) from East Timor and the Philippines (Pacific Ocean), with the description of three new species of Syllis Savigny in Lamarck, 1818, Zootaxa 4834 (2), pp. 231-263 : 238-239

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4834.2.5
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4403334
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scientific name	Syllis alternata Moore, 1908
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Syllis alternata Moore, 1908 View in CoL

Syllis alternata Moore, 1908: 323–325 View in CoL , text–fig. la–f.— San Martín & Viéitez, 1984: 153, figs 1, 2.

Syllis (Typosyllis) alternata Gardiner, 1976: 141 View in CoL , fig. 13b, c.— Uebelacker, 1984: 30–141, figs 30–136.

Typosyllis alternata View in CoL . Imajima, 1966a: 273, fig. 58a–l.

Material examined. EAST TIMOR. East of Cape Fatucama , 300 m off Jesus Backside Beach , 08°31’16”S 125°36’46”E, on Caulerpa geminata , 10.3 m depth, 19 Sep 2012, coll. L.E. Hughes, 1 spec. ( AM W.45654) GoogleMaps .

Habitat. In seaweeds, concretions of calcareous algae and dead coral ( San Martín 2003).

Distribution. Northeastern Pacific Ocean (from Alaska to California), Chukchi Sea, Japan, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of México, northeastern Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Arabian Sea ( San Martín 1992; San Martín 2003; Aguado et al. 2008; Lucas et al. 2020). Apparently cosmopolitan, mainly in the northern hemisphere, but some of these records are probably the result of misidentifications, and S. alternata may be a species-complex ( Lucas et al. 2020). First record for East Timor.