Sphaerosyllis levantina sp. n. (Annelida) from the eastern Mediterranean, with notes on character variation in Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863

Abstract. Examination of polychaete specimens from Haifa Bay (Israel, eastern Mediterranean Sea) revealed several individuals exhibiting morphological characteristics similar to Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863. A detailed morphometrical analysis of the Israeli specimens in comparison to specim...

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Autores principales: Faulwetter, Sarah, Chatzigeorgiou, Georgios, Galil, Bella S., Nicolaidou, Artemis, Arvanitidis, Christos
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3234443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22346561
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.150.1877
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author Faulwetter, Sarah
Chatzigeorgiou, Georgios
Galil, Bella S.
Nicolaidou, Artemis
Arvanitidis, Christos
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description Abstract. Examination of polychaete specimens from Haifa Bay (Israel, eastern Mediterranean Sea) revealed several individuals exhibiting morphological characteristics similar to Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863. A detailed morphometrical analysis of the Israeli specimens in comparison to specimens of Sphaerosyllis hystrix and Sphaerosyllis boeroi Musco, Çinar and Giangrande, 2005 supported the description of the former as a new species, Sphaerosyllis levantina sp. n. Individuals of Sphaerosyllis hystrix formed a very heterogeneous group with strong character variations in the analysis and the presumed cosmopolitan distribution of the species is discussed based on literature records.
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spelling pubmed-32344432012-02-15 Sphaerosyllis levantina sp. n. (Annelida) from the eastern Mediterranean, with notes on character variation in Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863 Faulwetter, Sarah Chatzigeorgiou, Georgios Galil, Bella S. Nicolaidou, Artemis Arvanitidis, Christos Zookeys Article Abstract. Examination of polychaete specimens from Haifa Bay (Israel, eastern Mediterranean Sea) revealed several individuals exhibiting morphological characteristics similar to Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863. A detailed morphometrical analysis of the Israeli specimens in comparison to specimens of Sphaerosyllis hystrix and Sphaerosyllis boeroi Musco, Çinar and Giangrande, 2005 supported the description of the former as a new species, Sphaerosyllis levantina sp. n. Individuals of Sphaerosyllis hystrix formed a very heterogeneous group with strong character variations in the analysis and the presumed cosmopolitan distribution of the species is discussed based on literature records. Pensoft Publishers 2011-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3234443/ /pubmed/22346561 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.150.1877 Text en Sarah Faulwetter, Georgios Chatzigeorgiou, Bella S. Galil, Artemis Nicolaidou, Christos Arvanitidis http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Faulwetter, Sarah
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Nicolaidou, Artemis
Arvanitidis, Christos
Sphaerosyllis levantina sp. n. (Annelida) from the eastern Mediterranean, with notes on character variation in Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863
title Sphaerosyllis levantina sp. n. (Annelida) from the eastern Mediterranean, with notes on character variation in Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863
title_full Sphaerosyllis levantina sp. n. (Annelida) from the eastern Mediterranean, with notes on character variation in Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863
title_fullStr Sphaerosyllis levantina sp. n. (Annelida) from the eastern Mediterranean, with notes on character variation in Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863
title_full_unstemmed Sphaerosyllis levantina sp. n. (Annelida) from the eastern Mediterranean, with notes on character variation in Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863
title_short Sphaerosyllis levantina sp. n. (Annelida) from the eastern Mediterranean, with notes on character variation in Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparède, 1863
title_sort sphaerosyllis levantina sp. n. (annelida) from the eastern mediterranean, with notes on character variation in sphaerosyllis hystrix claparède, 1863
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3234443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22346561
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.150.1877
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