RT Journal Article
T1 The tag-along friendship: epibiotic protozoans and syllidpolychaetes. Implications for the taxonomy of Syllidae (Annelida), and description of three new species of Rhabdostyla and Cothurnia (Ciliophora, Peritrichia)
A1 Álvarez-Campos, Patricia
A1 Fernández Leborans, Gregorio
A1 Verdes, Aida
A1 San Martín, Guillermo
A1 Martín, Daniel
A1 Riesgo, Ana
AB The presence of peritrich ciliate epibionts Rhabdostyla sp. and Cothurnia sp. on Syllidae polychaetes is reported here for the first time, including the description of three new species of epibiont ciliates. The protozoans were mainly found at intersegmental furrows, close to parapodial bases of newly collected specimens of Syllis magdalena Wesenberg-Lund, 1962, Syllis sp., Salvatoria sp., and Salvatoria concinna (Westheide, 1974) comb. nov. from Chile, Syllis prolifera Krohn, 1852 from Spain, and Prosphaerosyllis magnoculata (Hartmann-Schröder, 1986) from New Zealand. In addition, epibiont protozoans were found on the dorsal surface, nuchal organs, mouth opening, and anterior cirri of Syllis elongata Day, 1949 from Peru, and the ventral surface of Typosyllis macropectinans Hartmann-Schröder, 1982 from Australia. The discovery of protozoan epibionts on syllid polychaetes has important taxonomic implications that are discussed here. The presence of papillae that are in fact misinterpreted ciliate epibionts has been considered a valid character to distinguish among species or to erect new species of Syllidae, and thus the real origin of papillae-like structures in polychaetes should be carefully assessed.
PB Oxford University Press
SN 0024-4082, ESSN: 1096-3642
YR 2014
FD 2014-09-26
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/35633
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/35633
LA eng
NO Unión Europea. FP7
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
NO Consolidated Research Group of the Generalitat de Catalunya on Marine Benthic Ecology
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025