WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Pionosyllis micropharyngea Hartmann-Schröder, 1974) Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1974). Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der afrikanischen Westküste zwischen Angola und Kap der Guten Hoffnung und der afrikanischen Ostküste von Südafrika und Mocambique unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Teil II. Die Polychaeten des Untersuchungsgebietes. <em>Mitteilungen des Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museums und Instituts.</em> Ergänzungsband zu Band 69: 95-228. page(s): 126, plate 10 figs. 89-92 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Pionosyllis procera Hartman, 1965) Hartman, O. (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): 79-80, plate 10 figs. c-d [details]
new combination reference
San Martín, Guillermo; Aguado, María Teresa; Álvarez-Campos, Patricia. 2014. Revision of the genus Megasyllis (Annelida, Syllidae) with descriptions of four new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 94(02): 331-351 page(s): 347-348 [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal to 200 m. [details]
Distribution Atlantic coast of USA, Cape Verde Islands, southern and southwestern Africa. [details]
Habitat Under littoral stones, fine sand, algae, inside coralline rocks. [details]
Taxonomy San Martín et al. (2014) suggest that Megasyllis procera could be a junior synonym of Pionosyllis malmgreni McIntosh, 1869, but also state that it was not possible to confirm this, as the type material of P. malmgreni seems to be lost. [details]
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