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Erinaceusyllis

Erinaceusyllis is a genus belonging to the phylum Annelida, a group known as the segmented worms. Erinaceusyllis is a marine genus, while some of its species are possibly cosmopolitan. Its type species is Erinaceusyllis erinaceus, formerly Sphaerosyllis erinaceus. As of 2015, at least 12 species have been described, namely E. belizensis, E. bidentata, E centroamericana, E. cirripapillata, E. cryptica, E. erinaceus, E ettiennei, E. hartmannschroederae, E horrocksensis, E. kathrynae, E. opisthodentata, E. serratosetosa. The family contains two other genera, Sphaerosyllis and Prosphaerosyllis.

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Erinaceusyllis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Syllidae
Subfamily: Exogoninae
Genus: Erinaceusyllis
San Martín, 2005
Species

Erinaceusyllis belizensis (Russel, 1989)
Erinaceusyllis bidentata (Hartmann-Schröder, 1974)
Erinaceusyllis centroamericana (Hartmann-Schröder, 1959)
Erinaceusyllis cirripapillata San Martín, 2005
Erinaceusyllis cryptica (Ben-Eliahu, 1977)
Erinaceusyllis erinaceus (Claparède, 1863)
Erinaceusyllis ettiennei San Martín, 2005
Erinaceusyllis hartmannschroederae San Martín, 2005
Erinaceusyllis horrocksensis (Hartmann-Schröder, 1981)
Erinaceusyllis kathrynae San Martín, 2005
Erinaceusyllis opisthodentata (Hartmann-Schröder, 1987)
Erinaceusyllis serratosetosa (Hartmann-Schröder, 1982)

Erinaceusyllis is a genus belonging to the phylum Annelida, a group known as the segmented worms.1 Erinaceusyllis is a marine genus, while some of its species are possibly cosmopolitan.1234 Its type species is Erinaceusyllis erinaceus, formerly Sphaerosyllis erinaceus (Claparède, 1863).1 As of 2015, at least 12 species have been described, namely E. belizensis, E. bidentata, E centroamericana, E. cirripapillata, E. cryptica, E. erinaceus, E ettiennei, E. hartmannschroederae, E horrocksensis, E. kathrynae, E. opisthodentata, E. serratosetosa.5 The family contains two other genera, Sphaerosyllis (48 species) and Prosphaerosyllis.6

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References

  1. San Martín, G (2005). "Exogoninae (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from Australia with the description of a new genus and twenty-two new species". Records of the Australian Museum. 57 (1): 39–152 [55–57, figs. 11A–G, 12A–E.] doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.57.2005.1438.
  2. Núñez, Jorge; Martínez, Alejandro; Brito, M. Carmen (2009). "A new species of Sphaerosyllis Claparède, 1863 (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Exogoninae) from the Atlantida Tunnel, Lanzarote, Canary Islands". Marine Biodiversity. 39 (3): 209–214. doi:10.1007/s12526-009-0026-3. ISSN 1867-1616.
  3. Simon, Carol; Martín, Guillermo San; Robinson, Georgina (2014). "Two new species of Syllis (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from South Africa, one of them viviparous, with remarks on larval development and vivipary". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 94 (4): 729–746. doi:10.1017/S0025315413001926. ISSN 0025-3154.
  4. Frontana-Uribe, Sarita; Soli's-Weiss, Vivianne (2011). "First Records of Polychaetous Annelids from Cenote Aerolito (Sinkhole and Anchialine Cave) in Cozumel Island". Journal of Cave and Karst Studies. 73 (1): 1–10. doi:10.4311/jcks2009lsc0107. ISSN 1090-6924.
  5. "Erinaceusyllis San Martín, 2005". GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. GBIF. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  6. Faulwetter, Sarah; Chatzigeorgiou, Georgios; Galil, Bella S.; Nicolaidou, Artemis; Arvanitidis, Christos (2011). "Sphaerosyllis levantina sp. n. (Annelida) from the eastern Mediterranean, with notes on character variation in Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863". ZooKeys (150): 327–345. doi:10.3897/zookeys.150.1877. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 3234443. PMID 22346561.
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