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Haplosyllis (Annelida: Syllidae) from Saudi Arabian Red Sea, with the description of a new endosymbiotic species and a dichotomous key for the Indo-Pacific species
Este artĂculo contiene 7 páginas, 3 figuras.Knowledge of the Haplosyllis species in the Saudi
Arabian Red Sea is rather limited, since the so-called cosmopolitan
Haplosyllis spongicola and Haplosyllis djiboutiensis
apparently present all along the region are the only reported
species. However, both are revealed to be species-complexes,
the former mostly composed of European species and the later
distributed in the Indo-Pacific area. Recently, several new
species have been described following more comprehensive
taxonomic studies in the respective areas. Haplosyllis leylae
sp. nov. can be framed within the Bdjiboutiensis^ complex.
The new species, which is herein fully described and illustrated,
can be clearly distinguished by the combined presence of
numerous small dorsal granules, the low number of articles on
each dorsal cirrus, and the chaetal morphology. A dichotomous
key of the Indo-Pacific species of Haplosyllis and new
information on Haplosyllis eldagainoae are also included.This paper has been partially supported
by the projects CTM2014-57949-R funded by the Spanish
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the projects CTM2010-
22218 and CTM2013-43287-P funded by the Spanish State Research
Plan, and the Consolidated Research Group of Marine Benthic Ecology
of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014SGR120).Peer reviewe