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Anguillosyllis Day, 1963

Anguillosyllis sp.
Anguillosyllis sp.

325027  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325027)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Phyllodocida (Order)
  7. Nereidiformia (Suborder)
  8. Syllidae (Family)
  9. Anguillosyllis (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Anguillosyllis capensis Day, 1963 (type by original designation)
Braniella Hartman, 1965 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)

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Day, John H. (1963). The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 8: New species and records from grab samples and dredgings. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Series Zoology.</em> 10(7): 381-445., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2253177
page(s): 400 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Etymology Not stated. The name of the genus Anguillosyllis refers to Anguilla, Latin for eel, but the resemblance is not obvious, &...  
Etymology Not stated. The name of the genus Anguillosyllis refers to Anguilla, Latin for eel, but the resemblance is not obvious, & is not alluded to in any morphological features mentioned. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2023). World Polychaeta Database. Anguillosyllis Day, 1963. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325027 on 2023-12-08
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2008-03-05 14:39:51Z
created
Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2014-03-05 21:36:45Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey
2017-01-19 11:28:17Z
changed
Gil, João

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original description Day, John H. (1963). The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 8: New species and records from grab samples and dredgings. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Series Zoology.</em> 10(7): 381-445., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2253177
page(s): 400 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

original description  (of Braniella Hartman, 1965) Hartman, Olga. (1965). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic areas. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 28: 1-384., available online at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll82/id/20299
page(s): 72-73 [details]   

taxonomy source Maciolek, Nancy J. (2020). <em>Anguillosyllis</em> (Annelida: Syllidae) from multiple deep-water locations in the northern and southern hemispheres. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4793(1): 1-73., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4793.1.1
note: review and 16 new species, and key [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Aguado, M. T.; San Martin, G.; Siddall, M. E. 2012. Systematics and evolution of syllids (Annelida, Syllidae). Cladistics 28(3): 234-250., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00377.x [details]   

redescription Aguado, M.T.; San Martín, G. (2008). Re-description of some enigmatic genera of Syllidae (Phyllodocida: Polychaeta). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 88(01): 35-56., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002531540800026X
page(s): 36 [details]   

identification resource Barroso, Rômulo; De Paiva, Paulo Cesar; Nogueira, João Miguel De Matos; Fukuda, Marcelo Veronesi. (2017). Deep sea Syllidae (Annelida, Phyllodocida) from Southwestern Atlantic. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4221(4): 401–430., available online at http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4221.4.1
page(s): 422; note: has key for species [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

biology source Fukuda, Marcelo V.; Barroso, Rômulo. (2019). First report of brooding of eggs in the deep-sea genus Anguillosyllis (Annelida: Syllidae). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 99(8): 1775-1777., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315419000754
note: dorsal brooding of single large eggs in Anguillosyllis lanai [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
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Classification Anguillosyllis has intermediate morphological characteristics between Exogoninae and Eusyllinae according to Aguado & San Martín (2008) [details]

Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Day (1963: 400): ''Prostomium with 3 minute antennae and a pair of large pointed palps fused for half their length. A single pair of minute tentacular cirri. Pharynx straight, unarmed. Dorsal cirri long but not annulated. Ventral cirri present. Setigerous lobe of the parapodium with a contractile dorsal projection. Setae compound and falcigerous.''

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Etymology Not stated. The name of the genus Anguillosyllis refers to Anguilla, Latin for eel, but the resemblance is not obvious, & is not alluded to in any morphological features mentioned. [details]

Identification Aguado & San Martín (2008) provide a dichotomic key for the species of the genus.  [details]
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Anguillosyllis sp.
Anguillosyllis sp.

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