Autolytus longstaffi Ehlers 1912
- Dataset
- Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta).
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Annelida
- class
- Polychaeta
- order
- Phyllodocida
- family
- Syllidae
- genus
- Autolytus
- species
- Autolytus longstaffi
discussion
Remarks. Types do not exist. Description of male and female stolons. Male of Proceraea type, with 2 pairs of tentacular cirri, achaetous knobs, 6 chaetigers in region a, and thick type of bayonet chaetae. Female with 6 chaetigers in region a as interpreted from illustration (5 according to Ehlers' description), tentacular cirri and achaetous knobs not mentioned, chaetae of same type as in male. WesenbergLund (1961) briefly describes an atokous form with developing stolons behind chaetiger 11 – 13, that may or may not be A. longstaffi. Autolytus longstaffi could be the stolons to several Proceraea taxa.
distribution
Distribution. Antarctic.
Name
- Homonyms
- Autolytus longstaffi Ehlers 1912