Ravara, Ascensão, San Martín, G. and Moreira, Maria Helena. (2004). Syllidae from the continental shelf off Aveiro (NW Portugal) with the description of a new species, Syllis licheri (Annelida, Polychaeta, Syllidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica. 84(1-2): 1-11.

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Ravara, Ascensão, San Martín, G. and Moreira, Maria Helena

2004

84(1-2): 1-11

Publication

Kristian Fauchald's Polychaeta DB

Eighteen species belonging to eleven genera of the family Syllidae were collected in 1994 and 1995, during two cruises carried out on the continental shelf off Aveiro (40º30'-40º50' N, 8º40'-9º20' W). Syllids were mostly confined to the mid shelf, where sediments are coarser than in the inner and the outer parts of the shelf. Six species are cited for the first time for Portugal. A new species, Syllis licheri, is described. The new species is characterised by having unidentate or indistinctly bidentate, short, triangular blades on the compound chaetae, with short spines or smooth on margin, without a marked dorso-ventral or antero-posterior gradation in size. It has a large, straight aciculum protruding out from the parapodial lobes, and a long pharynx and proventricle. The holotype of the new species is deposited at Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid, Spain; paratypes are there and at Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Habitat, known world distribution, occurrence in Portugal, a brief comment on the biogeography and, for some species, taxonomic notes are presented.

Eastern Atlantic warm temperate to boreal
North Atlantic

Systematics, Taxonomy

Polychaeta

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