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Table 1 List of species occurring in the soft-bottom sediments and/or in the S. polyschides holdfasts collected in the Portuguese coast

From: Diversity, distribution and ecology of the family Syllidae (Annelida) in the Portuguese coast (Western Iberian Peninsula)

Substrate

Species name

Sediments

Holdfasts

Depth (m)

Sediment types

Ab

Max Ab

Ab

Max Ab

Continental shelf soft-bottom sediments only

Syllis pontxioi San Martín and López, 2000

91

15

16–127

VCS, CS, G, FS

Eurysyllis tuberculata Ehlers, 1864

88

23

13–168

VCS, CS, G, MS, FS

Syllis mercedesae Lucas, San Martin and Parapar, 2012

69

17

29–190

All, mostly FS, CS

Sphaerosyllis taylori Perkins, 1981

56

16

13–168

VCS, CS, MS, G, M

Opisthodonta serratisetosa López, San Marin and Jiménez, 1997

49

28

25–93

CS, G, VCS, MS

Plakosyllis brevipes Hartmann-Schröder, 1956

32

16

16–69

VCS, CS, G, MS

Syllis licheri Ravara, San Martín and Moreira, 2004

32

9

33–99

VCS, CS, G, MS

Palposyllis prosostoma Hartmann-Schröder, 1977

26

7

25–168

VCS, G, CS

Xenosyllis scabra (Ehlers, 1864)

23

12

25–49

VCS, CS, G, MS, FS

Streptodonta pterochaeta Southern, 1914

19

6

38–50

VCS, G, CS, MS

Odontosyllis gibba Claparède, 1863

18

5

25–99

VCS, G, CS, MS

Dioplosyllis cirrosa Gidholm, 1962

8

3

14–127

G, VCS, CS

Syllides convolutus (Webster and Benedict, 1884)

7

7

25

VCS

Parexogone gambiae Lanera, Sordino and San Martín, 1994

4

4

48

FS

Streptosyllis bidentata Southern, 1914

4

4

74

VCS

Exogone (Exogone) verugera (Claparède, 1868)

2

1

14–45

MS, CS

Parexogone hebes (Webster and Benedict, 1884)

2

1

46–121

FS

Syllis parapari San Martín and López, 2000

2

1

33–50

VCS, G

Odontosyllis fulgurans (Audouin and Milne-Edward, 1833)

1

1

69

VCS

Parexogone sp.

1

1

74

VCS

Salvatoria sp.

1

1

87

VCS

Syllis gerlachi (Hartmann-Schröder, 1960)

1

1

100

FS

Soft-bottom shelf sediments and saccorhiza polyschides holdfasts

Sphaerosyllis bulbosa Southern, 1914

311

56

1

1

0–127

All

Syllis garciai (Campoy, 1982)

204

21

43

10

0–133

All, mostly VCS, FS

Sphaerosyllis hystrix Claparéde, 1863

45

13

193

21

0–195

VCS, G, CS, MS

Trypanosyllis coeliaca Claparède, 1868

103

26

1

1

0–127

All, mostly VCS

Synmerosyllis lamelligera Saint Joseph, 1887

53

15

42

6

0–99

VCS, G, CS, MS

Myrianida brachycephala (Marenzeller, 1874)

7

4

83

13

0–129

M, FS, VCS

Parapionosyllis brevicirra San Martin, 1984

68

16

5

3

0–102

M, FS, MS, CS, VCS,

Syllis armillaris (O.F. Müller, 1776)

51

32

14

3

0–179

VCS, G, MS, FS, CS, VFS

Paraehlersia ferrugina (Langerhans, 1881)

26

13

17

3

0–127

VCS, CS, G, MS, FS, VFS

Sphaerosyllis sp.

38

25

1

1

0–93

VCS, G, CS

Syllides edentatus Westheide, 1974

1

1

27

18

0–99

VFS

Haplosyllis spongicola (Grube, 1855)

11

5

1

1

0–168

MS, FS

Syllis gracilis Grube, 1840

1

1

7

2

0–48

FS

Exogone (Exogone) naidina Örsted, 1845

4

1

1

1

0–99

FS, M, CS

Saccorhiza polyschides holdfasts only

Brania pusilla (Dujardin, 1851)

234

21

0

Syllis krohni Ehlers, 1864

37

4

0

Syllis variegata Grube, 1860

35

5

0

Syllis alternata Moore, 1908

30

6

0

Syllis corallicola Verrill, 1900

23

6

0

Odontosyllis ctenostoma Claparède, 1868

22

9

0

Amblyosyllis formosa (Claparède, 1863)

8

2

0

Nudisyllis pulligera (Krohn, 1852)

5

5

0

Trypanosyllis zebra (Grube, 1840)

4

4

0

Eusyllis assimilis Marenzeller, 1875

2

1

0

Miscellania dentata Martin, Alós and Sardá, 1990

2

1

0

Syllides fulvus (Marion and Bobretzky, 1875)

2

1

0

Eusyllis blomstrandi Malmgren, 1867

1

1

0

Parapionosyllis minuta (Pierantoni, 1903)

1

1

0

Salvatoria clavata (Claparède, 1863)

1

1

0

Salvatoria limbata (Claparède, 1868)

1

1

0

Sphaerosyllis pirifera Claparède, 1868

1

1

0

Syllis schulzi (Hartmann-Schröder, 1960)

1

1

0

Virchowia clavata Langerhans, 1879

1

1

0

  1. Ab total abundance, Max Ab maximum abundance per site or holdfast, – = species absent in the substrate, sediment types: G gravel, VCS very coarse sand, CS coarse sand, MS medium sand, FS fine sand, VFS very fine sand, M mud