Serpula vittata Augener, 1914

Kupriyanova, Elena K., Sun, Yanan, Ten Hove, Harry A., Wong, Eunice & Rouse, Greg W., 2015, Serpulidae (Annelida) of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Zootaxa 4019 (1), pp. 275-353 : 321-323

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Serpula vittata Augener, 1914 View in CoL

( Fig. 24A View FIGURE 24. A )

Serpula vittata Augener, 1914: 137 View in CoL –139, fig. 17, pl. 1, figs 18–19 [WA, Shark Bay; original desciption].

Serpula vittata View in CoL . —Imajima & ten Hove 1984: 41–42 [WA, Palau Islands; type material studied and synonymy]; Imajima 1987: 79 [Okinawa, Japan]; Parab & Gaikwad 1989: 224 [ India]; Nishi 1993b: 18 –19, fig. 1e, table 1 [Okinawa, Japan; in living coral]; Kupriyanova et al. 2008: 95, fig. 1E [Lizard Island, Qld; DNA data, colour photo]; ten Hove & Kupriyanova 2009: 8, fig. 1C [colour photo].

Not Serpula vittata View in CoL .— Straughan 1967a: 30 [Heron Island, Qld; see Imajima & ten Hove 1984: 41]; Nishi & Asakura 1996: 56 [description; Marianas].

Serpula palauense Imajima, 1982: 40 View in CoL –42, fig. 2a–m [fide Imajima & ten Hove 1984: 41].

Material examined. AM W.47832, between Bird and South Islands, 15 m, coll. P. Hutchings, 12 Mar 1986; AM W.42060, stn.G242, east lagoon near Bird Islet, coll. G. Rouse & E. Kupriyanova, 1 Nov 2005; AM W.42056, stn.G244, off South Island, coll. G. Rouse & E. Kupriyanova, 2 Nov 2005; AM W.45063, MI QLD 2413 (tube); SAM E3594, stn.G236, east lagoon near Bird Islet, 9 m, coll. G. Rouse & E. Kupriyanova, 29 Oct 2005; ZMA V.Pol. 5532, stn.16, North Point, sloping reef, mainly dead, slightly silted corals, 3–17 m, coll. H. ten Hove, P. Hutchings & M. Reid, 1 Mar 1986.

Diagnosis. Tube white with (3–)5 longitudinal ridges, dotted with small deep-brown speckles (to almost orange in fresh material) between those ridges ( Imajima 1982: 41, fig. 2m; as S. palauense ) to complete transverse bands of brown.

Remarks. Serpula vittata differs from all other known Serpula spp. in its very characteristic tube. Though the operculum has been decribed with 18–23 radii ( Augener 1914: 138, fig. 18 respectively Imajima 1982: 40, fig. 2a), in our material the operculum occasionally is globular only, with 6 longitudinal grooves (probably still developing from the pseudoperculum; Fig. 24A View FIGURE 24. A ). From the diagnosis of the tube by Straughan (1967a: 30), round and white, her material evidently belongs to a different species. Similarly, Nishi & Asakura (1996) describe the tube as “white, thick walled, with a granular surface, irregularly coiled and lacking longitudinal ridges”.

Distribution. WA, Qld Australia; Palau Islands. First record from Lizard Island.

References

Augener, H. (1914) Polychaeta II. Sedentaria. In: Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (Eds.), Die Fauna Sudwest - Australiens Ergebnisse der Hamburger sudwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Vol. IV. Lieferung 5. Gustav Fischer, Jena, pp. 1 - 72.

Kupriyanova, E. K., Hove, H. A. ten, Sket, B., Zaksek, V., Trontelj, P. & Rouse, G. W. (2009) Evolution of the unique freshwater cave-dwelling tube worm Marifugia cavatica (Annelida: Serpulidae). Systematics and Biodiversity, 7, 389 - 401. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1477200009990168

Imajima, M. (1982) Serpulinae (Polychaetous Annelids) from the Palau and Yap Islands. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology, 23, 37 - 55.

Imajima, M. (1987) Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Sesoko Island and Bise, Okinawa. Galaxea, 6, 75 - 82.

Kupriyanova, E. K., Bastida-Zavala, R., Halt, M. N., Lee, M. & Rouse, G. W. (2008) Phylogeny of the Serpula - Crucigera - Hydroides clade (Serpulidae; Annelida) using molecular and morphological data: implications for operculum evolution. Invertebrate Systematics, 22, 425 - 437. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1071 / IS 08011

Hartmann-Schroder, G. (1986) Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Sudkuste Australiens (zwischen Wallaroo im Westen und Port MacDonnell im Osten). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 83, 31 - 70.

Nishi, E. (1993 b) On the internal structure of calcified tube walls in Serpulidae and Spirorbidae (Annelida, Polychaeta). Marine Fouling, 10, 17 - 20. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.4282 / sosj 1979.10.17

Nishi, E. & Asakura, A. (1996) Serpulid polychaetes (Annelida) from the Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia. Journal of Natural History Museum and Institute, 4, 51 - 58.

Parab, P. P. & Gaikwad, U. D. (1989) Occurrence and ecology of Serpula indica sp. nov. (Serpulidae - Polychaeta) from Ratnagiri coast. Journal of Ecobiology, 1, 223 - 232.

Straughan, D. (1967 a) Some Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Heron Island, Queensland. University of Queensland Papers, 1, 27 - 45.

Figures

FIGURE 24. A. Serpula vittata, live specimen in tube, stn. G 236, SAM E 3594; B. S. watsoni removed from tube, stn. G 235, AM W. 42062; C. Serpula sp. 1 in tube, AM W. 45048; D. Serpula sp. 2 in tube, AM W. 45413. Photo: A, B—G. Rouse, C, D—A. Semenov. Scale bars: A – D = 1 mm.