Haplosyllis villogorgicola Martin, Núñez, Riera & Gil, 2002

Lattig, Patricia & Martin, Daniel, 2009, A taxonomic revision of the genus Haplosyllis Langerhans, 1887 (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Syllinae), Zootaxa 2220, pp. 1-40 : 34

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.190035
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6218855
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scientific name	Haplosyllis villogorgicola Martin, Núñez, Riera & Gil, 2002
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Haplosyllis villogorgicola Martin, Núñez, Riera & Gil, 2002 View in CoL

Haplosyllis villogorgicola Martin, Núñez, Riera & Gil, 2002: 457 View in CoL –461, figs 2–4, 5A, 6.

Examined material. Canary Islands. 6 Paratypes MNCN 16.01/7833. Punta Guadamonte, Radazul, southeastern coast of Tenerife, 28º24’N 16º19’W.

Diagnosis. Body slender, fragile, length 4–13 mm, up to 80 chaetigers. Dorsal cirri long, some longer than body width. Midbody cirri alternating with short (13–22 articles) and long (14–44 articles). Chaetae with distal tooth smaller than proximal one, very thin. Three to five chaetae per parapodia.

Reproduction. Unknown.

Host. Specific ectosymbiont of the gorgonian Villogorgia vebricoides (Koch, 1887) ( Martin et al. 2002) .

Remarks. The species is illustrated, described and compared with the closely related H. chamaeleon in Martin et al. (2002).