Spiraserpula snellii Pillai

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 : 324

Spiraserpula snellii Pillai & ten Hove, 1994

Spiraserpula snellii Pillai & ten Hove, 1994: 84, 88–89, 91, fig. 26–28 [Red Sea, Indonesia; Lizard Island, Boulton Reef, Australia; Loyalty Islands; Okinawa, Japan; original description].

Spiraserpula sp.—ten Hove 1994: 112 [Amirantes, Seychelles].

Spiraserpula snellii . — Pillai 2009: 143 –144, fig. 34A–E [Kimberley, WA, material studied].

Material examined. AM W.20342, AM W.21677, ZMA V.Pol. 3830 (4), stn.21, south of South Island, 14°42'S, 145°28'E, sloping silty reef, little coral cover, 18–20 m, coll. H. ten Hove & P. Hutchings, 6 Mar 1986; BM(NH) 1992.65, stn.17, Palfrey Island south of lighthouse, 14°40'S, 145°28'E, coral heads on sandy bottom, 7 m, coll. H. ten Hove, P. Hutchings & M. Reid, 5 Mar 1986, det. Pillai & H. ten Hove; ZMA V.Pol. 3734, stn.20, reef front north of South Island, 14°40'S, 145°28'E, sloping reef outside lagoon & sandy bottom below, 10–17 m, coll. H. ten Hove, P. Hutchings & M. Reid, 5 Mar 1986, det. Pillai & H. ten Hove.

Diagnosis. Tubes up to 0.6 mm in external diameter, brownish in live and fresh material, but appearing mustard coloured after a few months in alcohol, with a pair of darker longitudinal bands along each flank. Tubes may be coiled more or less parallel to one another in the horizontal plane, mutually bonded together or spread out on the substrate and branched in places. Operculum absent, or simple, nearly globular.

Distribution. Taka Bone Rate, Indonesia, widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific.