Rangarajan, K. 1963. A new species of Scyphoproctus Gravier (family Capitellidae) from the Gulf of Mannar, South India. Journal of Marine Biological Association of India, 5(2): 251-257.

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Rangarajan, K.

1963

5(2): 251-257

Publication

http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/972/

Kristian Fauchald's Polychaeta DB

A perusal of relevant literature shows that there are only four described species of the genus Scyphoproctus Gravier. Scyphoproctus djiboutiensis Gravier has been recorded from the Bay of Djibouti (Gravier, 1904), the Red Sea (Gravier, 1906) and the Gulf of Mannar, India (Fauvel, 1930, 1953); S.gravieri Okuda was described from a single posterior bit comprising of seven setigerous segments and a pygidium collected at Kakihana, Okinawa (Okuda, 1940); S.oculatus Reish was taken in Newport Bay on the Southern California (Reish, 1959) and S. platyproctus Jones obtained from a sandy bottom off the Florida coast at Panama City, Bay County (Jones, 1961). During the study of the polychaete fauna of Gulf of Mannar, South India, six specimens of Scyphoproctus were obtained from the inter-tidal region near Vedalai on 21-4-1962, of which three are complete, two incomplete posteriorly and one incomplete anteriorly. As these specimens differ markedly from all known species of Scyphoproctus, they are reported here as Scyphoproctus variabilis.

Indian Ocean

Systematics, Taxonomy

Polychaeta

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