Phylogeny and reproduction in Syllidae (Polychaeta)

Four new species of Haplosyllis (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Syllinae) from Indonesia

Four species of the genus Haplosyllis from Indonesia are herein described and illustrated. In Haplosyllis aciculata sp. nov. and Haplosyllis ingensicola sp. nov. the longest midbody cirri exceed body width and posterior parapodia have a single broad, strongly curved acicula, while in Haplosyllis tenhovei sp. nov. and Haplosyllis nicoleae sp. nov. cirri are shorter than body width, and the two o...

Syllidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Caribbean coast of Venezuela

Venezuela possesses a great variety of coastal environments allowing for a high diversity of marine species. However, systematic studies on marine invertebrates are scarce, especially on polychaetes. The family Syllidae is poorly known, and only 14 genera and 42 species have been reported from this country. A total of 13 genera and 26 species the Syllidae were identified from benthic samples co...

Features of the first known association between Syllidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) and crustaceans

In this paper, we report the finding of a specimen of Haplosyllis (Polychaeta: Syllidae) living attached to the pleopod of a female of the pontoniin shrimp Platycaris latirostris Holthuis 1952, which, in turn, lives symbiotically with the scleractinian coral Galaxea astreata (Lamarck 1816) in the Vietnamese coasts of the South China Sea. This association is considered as ectoparasitic, being th...

Review of the symbiotic genus Haplosyllides (Polychaeta: Syllidae), with a description of a new species.

The genus Haplosyllides was considered as monotypic, with H. floridana as the only valid species. The present revision Includes two more species in this genus: H. aberrans comb. nov. and H. ophiocomae sp. nov. Syllis (Haplosyllis) aberrans (from Vietnam) was considered a Junior synonym of H. floridana (from the Caribbean). The finding of additional specimens from Vietnam and Indonesia, and the ...

Phylogeny of Echiura (Annelida, Polychaeta) inferred from morphological and molecular data-implications for character evolution