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A new species of Syllis (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Syllinae) from off Fortaleza, north-eastern Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2008

João Miguel de Matos Nogueira*
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Poliquetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, number 101, 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Gustavo Yunda-Guarin
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Zoobentos, Divisão de Oceanografia Biótica, Instituto de Ciências do Mar, Universidade Federal do Ceará
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: João Miguel de Matos Nogueira, Laboratório de Poliquetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, number 101, 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil email: nogueira@ib.usp.br

Abstract

In a study investigating the composition and spatial and temporal variation of the benthic macrofauna associated to the discharge of domestic sewage off Fortaleza, north-eastern Brazil, a new species of Syllis was found. This new species, S. guidae sp. nov., is characterized by having blades of falcigers with subdistal tooth about same length as distal tooth, but stouter than it, with spines on cutting edge almost reaching the tip of subdistal tooth, blades of falcigers with conspicuous subdistal triangular process and unusually long anal papilla between anal cirri, measuring about one-quarter of their length. Syllis guidae sp. nov., is herein described and compared with the most similar congeners.

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Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2008

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