Spirobranchus richardsmithi Pillai 2009
- Dataset
- Serpulidae (Annelida) of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Annelida
- class
- Polychaeta
- order
- Sabellida
- family
- Serpulidae
- genus
- Spirobranchus
- species
- Spirobranchus richardsmithi
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Opercular plate bearing a column ending in a pair of latero-dorsal spines with tips almost curving upright and a bifid medio-ventral spine with tips recurving towards opercular plate. Latero-dorsal spines each bear three short spinules, one single located latero-ventrally and clearly recurving towards opercular plate, the other pair located sub-terminally, not recurving. Peduncle with wide distal wings with entire edge (no processes).
discussion
Remarks. See remarks under Sp. gardineri.
distribution
Distribution. Widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific.
materials_examined
Material examined. AM W. 41735, Yonge Reef, 14 ° 35 ' S, 145 ° 37 ' E, in Millepora sp., coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W. 41740, Yonge Reef, back reef, 14 ° 36 ' S, 145 ° 37 ' E, on Sp. gardineri, coll. R. Smith, 7 Nov 1985; AM W. 41743, same, in Porites sp., coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W. 41744, same, in Millepora, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W. 41745, same, in Millepora, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W. 41750, same, coll. R. Smith, 6 Nov 1985; AM W. 41803, same, in Millepora, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W. 41807, same, in Millepora, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W. 41828, same, in Millepora, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W. 41914 (many), same, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W. 41918, same in Millepora, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W. 41956 (2), same, in Porites lichen, coll. R. Smith, Nov 1985; AM W. 45427, MI QLD 2447; SAM E 3610 (as S. gardineri), Ser 92, stn. G 231, Coconut Beach, 14 ° 41 ' S, 145 ° 28 ' E, scuba, coll. G. Rouse & E. Kupriyanova, 26 Oct 2005; ZMA V. Pol. 4829 (3), stn. 18, lagoon near east entrance, sheltered side of reef, near sandy bottom, 2 – 20 m, coll. H. ten Hove, 3 Mar 1986; ZMA V. Pol. 4830 (2, det HtH 1986 as Sp. gardineri - complex), stn. 17, Palfrey Island, south of lighthouse, 14 ° 40 ' S, 145 ° 28 ' E, coral heads on sandy bottom, 7 m, coll. H. ten Hove, P. Hutchings & M. Reid, 2 Mar 1986.