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Anguillosyllis Day, 1963

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

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.) (2024). 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 2024-03-19
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2008-03-05 14:39:51Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2014-03-05 21:36:45Z
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2017-01-19 11:28:17Z
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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, 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): 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]