Phyllosyllis albida Ehlers 1897 ...

• Main Author: Nygren, Arne
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Phyllodocida; Syllidae; Phyllosyllis; Phyllosyllis albida; Antarctic; Nygren; San Martín; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6273327; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6273327

Phyllosyllis albida Ehlers, 1897 Phyllosyllis albida Ehlers, 1897: 61 –63, pl. 4, fig. 77–80; Augener, 1918: 304 –305; Hartman 1964: 83–84, pl. 26, fig. 3, 4. Not Phyllosyllis albida Ehlers 1913: 494 –495, pl. 33, fig. 7–8 (= Virchowia branchiata) Distribution. Antarctic. Remarks. The original description was based on a single damaged specimen, with short equal fusiform dorsal cirri from chaetiger 2. The first segment was interpreted as having chaetae, and two pairs of tentacular cirri. This is probably a misconception, as this is not found in any other autolytine, or syllid. Of course, there may be several hypothetic explanations for this; one is that the first dorsal cirri pair is lost, and what is seen are the two pairs of tentacular cirri; another one is that one of the tentacular cirri pair is lost, and what is seen are one pair of tentacular cirri and first dorsal cirri; a third is that there is only one pair of tentacular cirri, as suggested by San Martín and Alós (1989). The bottom line is, without ... : Published as part of Nygren, Arne, 2004, Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta)., pp. 1-314 in Zootaxa 680 on pages 195-196, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157809 ...