WoRMS taxon details
original description
Augener, Hermann. (1922). Ueber litorale Polychaeten von Westindien. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschende Freunde zur Berlin.</em> (3-5): 38-53., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43656381 page(s): 44-45 [details]
redescription
San Martín, G., Ibarzábal, Diana R., Jiménez, M. and López, E. 1997. Redescription of <i>Haplosyllis floridana</i> Augener, 1924 (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Syllinae), with notes on morphological variability and comments on the generic status. Bulletin of Marine Science 60(2): 364-370., available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/1997/00000060/00000002/art00016 page(s): 365-369, figs. 1-3 [as valid] [details]
redescription
Martin, D.; Aguado, M.T.; Britayev, T.A. 2009. Review of the symbiotic genus <i>Haplosyllides</i> (Polychaeta: Syllidae), with a description of a new species. Zoological Science 26(9): 646-655 page(s): 650-651, figs. 2A-D, 4A, C, 5A-C, 6, 7F-I, table 1 [details]
new combination reference
Uebelacker, Joan M. 1982. Review of some little-known species of Syllids (Annelida: Polychaeta) described from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean by Hermann Augener in 1924. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95(3): 583-593., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/48302 page(s): 584, fig. 1 [to Haplosyllis] [details]
Holotype ZMB 6608, geounit Dry Tortugas [details]
From editor or global species database
Association The species lives symbiotically inside the sponge Xestospongia muta (Schmidt, 1870). [details]
Depth range Shallow water. Augener (1922) states that the holotype, a swimming male stolon, was probably planktonic. San Martín et al. (1997) found the species inside the sponge Xestospongia muta (Schmidt, 1870), collected 5 m depth. [details]
Distribution Gulf of Mexico: South Florida (Dry Tortugas); Cuba (off Havana). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet floridana refers to the type locality of the species, Dry Tortugas, in South Florida. [details]
Habitat Lives symbiotically inside the sponge Xestospongia muta (Schmidt, 1870), in shallow water. Stolons planktonic. [details]
Type locality Gulf of Mexico, South Florida, Dry Tortugas (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. 24.634º, long. -82.922º). [details]
Type material The holotype (ZMB 6608) is a male stolon. [details]
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