Di Camillo, Cristina Gioia; Martin, Daniel; Britayev, Temir A. (2011). Symbiotic association between Solanderia secunda (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Solanderiidae) and Medioantenna variopinta sp. nov. (Annelida, Polychaeta, Polynoidae) from North Sulawesi (Indonesia). Helgoland Marine Research. 65(4): 495-511.

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10.1007/s10152-010-0239-7 [view]

Di Camillo, Cristina Gioia; Martin, Daniel; Britayev, Temir A.

2011

65(4): 495-511

Publication

http://doi.org/10.1007/s10152-010-0239-7

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A mimic scale-worm was found associated with the athecate hydroid Solanderia secunda, commonly found on reefs of the NW coast of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The species resembled Medioantenna clavata Imajima 1997, which was originally described without any reference to a symbiotic mode of life and later reported to be living on a solanderiid hydroid both in Japanese waters. A detailed morphological analysis led us to consider the Indonesian specimens as a new species, namely Medioantenna variopinta sp. nov., which is congeneric with the Japanese species. The new species differs from the type material of M. clavata as it has elytra with one prominent finger-like papilla and all neurochaetae with unidentate tip, instead of an elytral lump and both unidentate and bidentate neurochaetae on segment two. In turn, the Japanese worms associated with Solanderia are here referred to our new species. Two morphological features in M. variopinta sp. nov. are rather unusual among scale-worms. One of them is its extremely high level of bilateral asymmetry and antero-posterior variability in elytral distribution and the other one is its elongated, upwardly directed nephridial papillae. The morphology and geographical distribution of the host together with the known characteristics of the symbiotic association have also been highlighted.

Indo West Pacific Region
Japan

Associations, Symbiosis, Commensalism (parasitism see *PAR)
Systematics, Taxonomy

Annelida
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Polychaeta

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