Moreira, J.; Parapar, J. (2007). A new species of Synelmis (Annelida: Polychaeta: Pilargidae) from the continental slope off Galicia (north-western Iberian Peninsula). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 87(05): 1117-1120.
A new species of Synelmis (Annelida: Polychaeta: Pilargidae), Synelmis urgorrii sp. nov., is described from the continental slope off north-western Spain. The new species is characterized by having antennae, peristomial cirri and parapodial cirri cirriform, lateral antennae located in the proximal third of the prostomium, notospines starting on chaetigers 7-11, well-developed neuropodial lobe and asymmetrical furcate chaetae, those of anterior chaetigers distinctly spinulated.
Lusitanian region: Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands to west Iberian Peninsula together
North Atlantic