Polychaeta name details
original description
San Martín, Guillermo. (1992). <i>Syllis</i> Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Syllinae) from Cuba, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and North Carolina, with a revision of several species described by Verrill. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 51(2): 167-196., available online at https://bit.ly/2XCD39q page(s): 176-177, fig. 3 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Licher, Frank 2000 (1999), Revision der Gattung Typosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (Polychaeta: Syllidae). Morphologie, Taxonomie und Phylogenie. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 551:1-336 page(s): 101-108 [details]
Holotype MNCN 16.1/778, geounit Cuba [details]
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Depth range 1-4 m. [details]
Distribution Caribbean Sea, Cuba (Isla de la Juventud and Cayo Matías). [details]
Etymology The species is named in honor of Dr. Rafael Sardá, a Spanish polychaetologist from the Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (Girona). [details]
Habitat In dead coral, at shallow water. [details]
Synonymy The species was synonymized with Syllis variegata Grube, 1860 (as Typosyllis) by Licher (1999: 108). [details]
Type locality Caribbean Sea, Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, Punta del Este and Cayo Matías (geocoordinates not provided but estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. 21.563851º, long. -82.500318º). [details]
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