Syllis coralicolla Verrill, 1900

Linero-Arana, Ildefonso & Diaz Diaz, Oscarn, 2011, Syllidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, ZooKeys 117, pp. 1-28 : 11

Syllis coralicolla Verrill, 1900 Figs 3.15-3.18

Syllis coralicolla San Martín 1992:185-186, fig. 1 A–D.– San Martín and Bone 2001:616.- Nogueira and San Martín 2002:73-75, figs. 11, 12.- San Martín 2003:439-443, figs. 242-243.

Material examined.

BMC101, (5), inside dead Millepora alcicornis , 1-2 m depth.

Description.

Length to 9.5 mm,width 0.59 mm. Body with up to 79 chaetigers. Prostomium with a pair of anterior eyespots and two pairs of lentigerous eyes in trapezoidal arrangement. Median antenna with 19-30 articles, lateral ones with 15-17 articles. Dorsal tentacular cirri with 24-38 articles, ventral ones with 15-18 articles. Dorsal cirri of chaetiger 1 long, with 35-41 articles. Dorsal cirri alternating longer, with 24-33 articles, and shorter, with 14-19 articles. Compound falcigers bidentate and serrated (Fig. 3.15). Acicula enlarged subdistally with rounded tip (Fig. 3.16). Dorsal bifid simple chaeta (Fig. 3.17), and ventral simple chaeta bidentate, both only present on posterior chaetigers (Fig. 3.18). Pharynx extending through 7-8 chaetigers, with anterior tooth. Proventriculus extending through 5-7 chaetigers, with 33-41 rows of muscle cells. Pygidium with a pair of anal cirri.

Distribution.

Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean, Balear Islands, Antillas, Bermuda, Cuba, Venezuela.