TY  - JOUR
AB  - In this paper we describe three species belonging to the genus <i>Branchiosyllis</i> Ehlers, 1887, collected from different areas of the Socotra Archipelago. Two of them, <i>Branchiosyllis inesae</i> n. sp. and <i>Branchiosyllis camblori</i> n. sp. are new to science. The third species, <i>Branchiosyllis exilis</i> (Gravier, 1900), has been recorded circumtropically but was originally described from the neighbouring country of Djibouti. <i>Branchiosyllis inesae</i> n. sp. is characterized by a dorsoventrally flattened body, lack of branchiae, and a transversal reddish-brown band on the dorsum of each anterior segment, more marked dorsolaterally, bands disappearing after proventricle level, only dorsolateral spots remaining; compound chaetae comprise only falcigers anteriorly, ungulae appear in midbody, in posterior segments only ungulae are present. <i>Branchiosyllis camblori</i> n. sp. is characterized by numerous black spots on the dorsum and on some articles of the dorsal cirri; chaetae are mostly unidentate falcigers in anterior parapodia, and unidentate falcigers and ungulae in posterior parapodia. A description of <i>Branchiosyllis exilis</i> is also included because little information is available from specimens collected close to the type locality. A synoptic table of characters of the three species described herein is also provided.
A1  - Lucas Rodríguez, Yolanda
A1  - San Martín, Guillermo
A1  - Fiege, Dieter
DO  - 10.1007/s12526-017-0657-8
JO  - Marine Biodiversity
N1  - World Polychaeta Database (WPolyD). First Online: 25 February 2017. 9 pp. Zoobank registered thus taxa valid from 2017
IS  - 3
SP  - 1519
EP  - 1527
C1  - 48(3): 1519–1527
TI  - Two new species of <i>Branchiosyllis</i> Ehlers, 1887 (Annelida: Polychaeta: Syllidae) and redescription of <i>Branchiosyllis exilis</i> (Gravier, 1900), from Socotra Archipelago (Yemen, Indian Ocean)
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0657-8
VL  - 48
PY  - 2017 (2018 in print)
Y2  - 2026-10-14
ER  -