WoRMS taxon details
original description
Álvarez-Campos, Patricia; Taboada, Sergio; San Martín, Guillermo; Leiva, Carlos; Riesgo, Ana. (2018). Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of reproductive modes within flattened syllids (Annelida: Syllidae) with the description of a new genus and six new species. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 32: 224-251., available online at http://www.publish.csiro.au/IS/IS17011 page(s): 234 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Álvarez-Campos et al. (2018: 234): "Small-sized body, with numerous short segments [...]. Numerous minute verrucae covering dorsal and ventral surface, densely distributed mainly in the dorsum [...]; some bigger spines on the posterior part of each segment as well as on the cirrophores [...]. Simple unidentate thick chaetae, all similar throughout body, slightly curved, with a short triangular basal spur [...]." [details]
Etymology "The name derives from the presence of spines on its surface" (Álvarez-Campos et al., 2018: 234). [details]
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