Contribución al estudio de los dorvilleidos (Annelida, polychaeta) de Canarias

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

ISSN: 1130-4723

Year of publication: 1996

Volume: 8

Issue: 2-4

Pages: 139-151

Type: Article

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Abstract

A study of the family Dorvilleidae on the base of sampling collected on hard and soft bottoms from Canary Islands is made. Three genera, Dorvillea Parfitt, 1866, Protodorvillea Pettibone, 1 961 y Ophryotrocha Claparede y Mecznikow, 1 869, belonging to three species are recorded. The species Dorvillea cf. similis (Crossland, 1924) and Ophryotrocha labronica Bacci y La Greca, 1962 is new from Canarian fauna. Furthermore, new data on the biology of O. labronica are giving.