A new species of Myrianida (Autolytinae, Syllidae, Annelida) from the North Sea, with short notes on the distribution and habitat of Northeast Atlantic autolytines

Abstract

In this paper, we describe Myrianida sanmartini, a new species of Autolytinae from the North Sea, southwest and north of Helgoland. The species is unique within the genus in that the cirrophores of both short and long cirri are longer than the cirrostyles. In addition, we provide illustrated keys to the North Atlantic species of autolytine syllids and report on finding Proceraea rubroproventriculata Nygren & Gidholm, 2001 for the first time in the North East Atlantic (Madeira).

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Key words:

• Cirrophore
• cirrostyle
• Myrianida
• North Sea
• Syllidae

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the staff of Institut für Angewandte Ökosystemforschung (Germany), in particular Lisa Schüler, Rita Fürst, Stefanie Breyer and Felix Hoffmann, for all their help. We would like to express our gratitude to Prof. Dr Jochen Grossmann from GICON Holding GmbH, who enabled this research. For critical and helpful comments, suggestions and support in improving our manuscript, we would like to thank our reviewers Daniel Martin and Guillermo San Martín and editors.

Supplementary material (Supplementary keys S1–S3)

The supplementary material for this article is available via the Supplemental tab of the article’s online page at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2015.1016971

Editorial responsibility: Danny Eibye-Jacobsen

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Funding

Financial support was provided to Arne Nygren by the Norwegian Taxonomy Initiative knr. 49-13, per. 70184228.