Martin, Daniel; Marin, Ivan; Britayev, Temir A. (2008). Features of the first known association between Syllidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) and crustaceans. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 8(4): 279-281.

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10.1016/j.ode.2007.12.002 [view]

Martin, Daniel; Marin, Ivan; Britayev, Temir A.

2008

8(4): 279-281

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2007.12.002

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This paper reports on a specimen of Haplosyllides (Polychaeta: Syllidae) living attached to the pleopod of a female of the pontoniine shrimp Platycaris latirostris Holthuis, 1952, which in turn lives symbiotically with the scleractinian coral Galaxea astreata (Lamarck, 1816) on the Vietnamese coasts of the South China Sea. The worm–shrimp association is considered as ectoparasitic, thus representing the first of its kind observed between polychaetes and shrimps, but also between syllids and crustaceans in general. This mode of life strongly differs from that of the single Haplosyllides species currently accepted as valid, H. floridana Augener, 1924 from Florida and Cuba (a strict sponge endosymbiont). The discrepancy casts some doubt on the synonymy of H. floridana with Syllis (Haplosyllis) aberrans (described from Vietnam).

South China Sea
South-east Asia

Associations, Symbiosis, Commensalism (parasitism see *PAR)
Parasites, Parasitism
Systematics, Taxonomy

Annelida
Crustacea
Polychaeta

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