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Description

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“SYLLIDES ARTICULOSUS Ehlers.

Ehlers, 1897, 42, pl. ii, figs. 48-52; idem, 1913, 487, pl. xxxi, figs. 4-5; Fauvel, 1916, 427. Sta. 41. 65° 48' S., 53° 16' E., off Enderby Land, pelagic, surface (6).

Distribution : Magellan region; Falkland Islands ; Kerguelen; Kaiser Wilhelm Land.

These are ripe females measuring about 5 mm. in length for between 35 and 40 chaetigers. The swimming bristles begin at the eleventh chaetiger. Three is a small accessory third pair of eyes, and the tentacles are set a little further forward on the head than as figured by Ehlers. The end-pieces of the bristles are so fine and transparent that I cannot make out the second tooth. The presence of these Ehlersia-like end-pieces is the chief distinction between this species and S. longocirrata Oersted.

Gravier's S. liouvillei has no moniliform cirri.”

(Monro, 1939)

Bioclimatic category

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Reference

Musco, Luigi; Giangrande, Adriana. (2005). Mediterranean Syllidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) revisited: biogeography, diversity and species fidelity to environmental features. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 304: 143-153 + 4 pp. Supplementary appendix.

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Distribution

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disjunct distribution

Reference

Musco, Luigi; Giangrande, Adriana. (2005). Mediterranean Syllidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) revisited: biogeography, diversity and species fidelity to environmental features. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 304: 143-153 + 4 pp. Supplementary appendix.

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