Parasabella pallida Moore, 1923

Bastida-Zavala, J. Rolando, Buelna, Alondra Sofía Rodríguez, León-González, Jesús Angel De, Camacho-Cruz, Karla Andrea & Carmona, Isabel, 2016, New records of sabellids and serpulids (Polychaeta: Sabellidae, Serpulidae) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific, Zootaxa 4184 (3), pp. 401-457 : 407-408

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scientific name	Parasabella pallida Moore, 1923
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Parasabella pallida Moore, 1923: 241 –242. Type locality: Off Santa Cruz Lighthouse , California, 18 m, fine gray sand and rock.

Parasabella pallida . — Loi 1980: 144; Tovar-Hernández & Harris 2010: 15 (mistake as a new combination); Villalobos- Guerrero et al. 2014: 106 (Sinaloa, checklist).

Demonax pallidus . — Perkins 1984: 313–315, Figs 15–16 (new combination); Tovar-Hernández et al. 2009b: 325–326, Figs 2 b, f, 3c-d, 4c-e (fouling in Mazatlán, Sinaloa).

Material examined. Six specimens.

Baja California Sur: UANL 7857, 4 spec. (Puerto Escondido, sta. 1: 25°48’51.8”N, 111°18’41.2”W, April 2, 2011, coll. JAL & ARB); UANL 7858, 2 spec. (same, sta. 2: 25°48’53.1”N, 111°18’40.5”W, April 2, 2011, coll. JAL & ARB). GoogleMaps

Habitat. Intertidal to subtidal (18 m, Moore 1923). Fine gray sand and rock ( Moore 1923); also from anthropogenic substrates in marinas (from Puerto Escondido , Baja California Sur and Mazatlán , Sinaloa). Fouling species.

Distribution. California to Gulf of California (only in marinas).

Remarks. Moore (1923) described this species in Parasabella and Perkins (1984) transferred it to Demonax ; however, all species in Demonax were synonymized with Parasabella ( Tovar-Hernández & Harris 2010) . This species is a new record for the Gulf of California, it is possibly an exotic species introduced by yachts from California.

References

Perkins, T. H. (1984) Revision of Demonax Kinberg, Hypsicomus Grube, and Notaulax, with a review of Megalomma Johansson from Florida (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 97 (2), 285 - 368.

Loi, T. - N. (1980) Catalogue of the types of polychaete species erected by J. Percy Moore. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 132, 121 - 149.

Moore, J. P. (1923) The Polychaetous Annelids dredged by the U. S. S. Albatross off the coast of Southern California in 1904. IV. Spionidae to Sabellariidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 75, 179 - 259.

Tovar-Hernandez, M. A., Mendez, N. & Villalobos-Guerrero, T. F. (2009 b) Fouling polychaete worms from the Southern Gulf of California: Sabellidae and Serpulidae. Systematics and Biodiversity, 7 (3), 319 - 336. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / s 1477200009990041

Tovar-Hernandez, M. A. & Harris, L. H. (2010) Parasabella Bush, 1905, replacement name for the polychaete genus Demonax Kinberg, 1867 (Annelida, Polychaeta, Sabellidae). ZooKeys, 60, 13 - 19. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 60.547