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
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
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
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
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]
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