Exogone africana Hartmann-Schröder, 1974

Aguado, M. Teresa, Murray, Anna & Hutchings, Pat, 2015, Syllidae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Zootaxa 4019 (1), pp. 35-60 : 43

Exogone africana Hartmann-Schröder, 1974

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Exogone verugera africana Hartmann-Schröder, 1974a: 137 , figs 164–168.

Exogone (Exogone) africana .— San Martín 2005: 143 –145, figs 90A–I, 91A–E; Çinar & Dagli 2012: 105 –106, fig. 3.

Material examined. AM W.45201, MI QLD 2437.

Remarks. Specimen with brooding eggs, with natatory chaetae ( Fig. 5A ). San Martín (2005) includes in the diagnosis of Exogone that mature females carry eggs ventrally, and lack capillary notochaetae (natatory chaetae), which are, in contrast, present in mature males. However, this specimen is clearly a female brooding eggs ventrally and possesses natatory chaetae in midbody segments.

Habitat. All kinds of substrates, in intertidal to shallow waters.

Distribution. Angola, Namibia, Hawaii, Japan, Australia (all states), Mediterranean (alien species).

Figures

FIGURE 5. A. Exogone africana AM W. 45201, dorsal view; B. Prosphaerosyllis longipapillata AM W. 45202, dorsal view; C. Paraopisthosyllis phyllocirra AM W. 44771, dorsal view; D. Megasyllis heterosetosa AM W. 44780, dorsal view; E. Megasyllis heterosetosa under fluorescent green light, dorsal view; F. P arasphaerosyllis indica AM W. 44422, pygidium, dorsal view. Scale bars: F = 50 µm.