Webster & Benedict, 1884

Description:
Prostomium rounded with four eyes in a trapezoid arrangement and two ocelli. Palps dorsally not visible.
Dorsal cirri distally more or less distinctly annulate. Ventral cirri much longer than parapodial lobes. Aciculae with a terminal button; those of parapodia 2-5 twice as thick as the others. Blades of compound chaetae long and short, distally blunt, with a hoodlike membrane. Compound chaetae of posterior parapodia not clearly bidentate and without membrane. A simple upper chaeta is present, distally blunt and equipped with a supporting hood. Pharynx without anterior tooth.

Size:
Body up to 8 mm long for 55 segments.

Colour:
Transparent, brownish-yellow.

Distribution:
East coast of the USA, southern North Sea.

Remark:
This species is not sufficiently known and it is suspected that specimens from the southern North Sea actually are Streptosyllis websteri .

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Order Phyllodocida
Superfamily Nereidoidea
Family Syllidae
Subfamily Eusyllinae
Genus Streptosyllis
Species Streptosyllis arenae

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Streptosyllis arenae Webster & Benedict, 1884

Scientific synonyms and common names

Streptosyllis arenae Webster & Benedict, 1884

Hartmann-Schröder, G., 1996. Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta. Tierwelt Deutschlands, 58: 1-648.

Pettibone, M.H., 1963. Marine Polychaete worms of the New England region part 1: Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

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