Ctenodrílicos y cirratúlidos (Annelida: Polychaeta) asociados a demosponjas litorales de Canarias y Madeira

  1. Pascual Serrano, Mariano
  2. Núñez Fraga, Jorge
  3. Brito Castro, María del Carmen
  4. Riera Elena, Rodrigo
Revista:
Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias: = Folia Canariensis Academiae Scientiarum

ISSN: 1130-4723

Ano de publicación: 2001

Volume: 13

Número: 4

Páxinas: 49-59

Tipo: Artigo

Outras publicacións en: Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias: = Folia Canariensis Academiae Scientiarum

Resumo

The present paper is a part of a wider work on the endobiontic fauna of demosponges collected in shallow hard bottoms from Macaronesian Central Region. The species belonging to the families Ctenodrilidae and Cirratulidae were new records for the fauna of Canaries and Madeira, are described here. The ctenodrilid Ctenodrilus serratus (Schmidt, 1857) is recorded for the first time for the Canary Islands and Madeira. Also, the cirratulids Cirratulus chrysoderma Claparede, 1870, Dodecaceria concharum Orsted, 1843 and Caulleriella alata (Southern, 1914) are new records for Canaries. Juvenile forms of the cirratulid D. concharum are described, considered as the ctenodrilid Zeppelina dentata Monticelli, 1897, which at the present time are considered a junior synonym of D. concharum.