WoRMS name details
original description
Worsaae, Katrine; Sterrer, Wolfgang; Iliffe, Thomas M. (2004). Longipalpa saltatrix, a new genus and species of the meiofaunal family Nerillidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from an anchihaline cave in Bermuda. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 117(3): 346-362., available online at http://www.tamug.edu/cavebiology/reprints/Reprint-155.pdf [details]
context source (Bermuda)
Worsaae, Katrine; Sterrer, Wolfgang; Iliffe, Thomas M. (2004). Longipalpa saltatrix, a new genus and species of the meiofaunal family Nerillidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from an anchihaline cave in Bermuda. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 117(3): 346-362., available online at http://www.tamug.edu/cavebiology/reprints/Reprint-155.pdf [details]
new combination reference
Worsaae, Katrine; Gonzalez, Brett C.; Kerbl, Alexandra; Nielsen, Sofie Holdflod; Jørgensen, Julie Terp; Armenteros, Maickel; Iliffe, Thomas M.; Martínez, Alejandro. (2018). Diversity and evolution of the stygobitic Speleonerilla nom. nov. (Nerillidae, Annelida) with description of three new species from anchialine caves in the Caribbean and Lanzarote. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 49(5): 2167–2192., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12526-018-0906-5 page(s): 4 of 28; note: to new genus combination because of homonymy of genus name, Longipalpa [details]
Holotype ZMUC ZMUC-POL 1675, geounit Bermuda Islands [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology Unique to an anchihaline cave pool, Bermuda. Authors: "Motility.-The animals swim beautifully in the water column, describing loops and turns. Less frequently, they glide over the surface and if provoked make an escape reaction or quick turn by undulation of the body and fast curling up of the palps in a narrow spiral. When swimming, they are capable of bending the prostomium and body as well as waving, bending and curling the long palps. The pygidial lobes are flapped between positions flat along the body to an almost right angle to the dorsal surface, thereby using the densely ciliated lobes as helms. The forward drift seems to be created mainly by the ventral ciliation, possibly with additional force from the cilia on palps and pygidial lobes" "Foraging could happen when gliding over or through the substrate as well as when swimming through and above the sediment collecting particles in suspension." [details]
Etymology authors: "From the Latin saltator (=dancer) in reference to the swimming skills of the species, which may swim in loops while waving and twisting the long palps" [details]
Homonymy recombined to Speleonerilla due to homonymy of the original genus name, Longipalpa, already used in Lepidoptera [details]
Type locality Roadside Cave, Bermuda, 32.35, -64.7167, 0.5-6.5 m [details]
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cave archiannelid |
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