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. 2018 Apr 14;5(1):26–42. doi: 10.1002/reg2.98

Table 1.

Features of regeneration in Syllidae: sexual reproduction, resegmentation and literature review

Anterior resegmentation Posterior resegmentation
Species Reproduction Prt Time N seg Pyg Time N seg References
Amblyosyllis formosa Epigamy NA NA NA 4 7 Abeloos, 1952
Epigamia alexandri Epigamy Malaquin, 1893; Saint‐Joseph, 1886
Epigamia macrophtalma Epigamy NA NA NA 42 10 Allen, 1927a
Myrianida edwardsi Schizogamy 2 5 13 Okada, 1929; Saint‐Joseph, 1886
Myrianida pinnigera Schizogamy >20 Dehorne, 1917; Okada, 1935
Proceraea picta Schizogamy 8 11 Allen, 1927a, 1927b; Okada, 1929, 1934
Proceraea scapularis Schizogamy Okada, 1933a
Procerastea halleziana Schizogamy 4 39 29 3 39 35 Allen, 1923, 1927a; Caullery, 1925
Eusyllis assimilis Epigamy 9 Malaquin, 1893
Eusyllis blomstrandi Epigamy 53 4 Boilly, 1961
Odontosyllis fulgurans Epigamy 6 Okada, 1929; Saint‐Joseph, 1886
Odontosyllis ctenostoma Epigamy Michel, 1909b; Schroeder & Hermans, 1975
Synmerosyllis lamelligera Epigamy Allen, 1927b; Okada, 1929
Exogone naidina Epigamy Pagenstecher, 1862; Viguier, 1884
Alcyonosyllis aidae Schizogamy Álvarez‐Campos et al., 2013
Branchiosyllis cirropunctata Schizogamy Michel, 1909b, 1909c
Haplosyllis spongicola Schizogamy 2 18 Albert, 1887; Okada, 1929; Saint‐Joseph, 1886; Wissocq, 1966
Opisthosyllis brunnea Schizogamy 2 3 Okada, 1929
Parahaplosyllis brevicirra Schizogamy San Martín, Hutchings, & Aguado, 2010
Parahaplosyllis kumpol Schizogamy Álvarez‐Campos et al., 2013
Ramisyllis multicaudata Schizogamy Aguado, Glasby et al., 2015; Glasby et al., 2012; Schroeder et al., 2017
Syllis amica Schizogamy 5 70 4 9 70 20 Boilly, 1962a, 1962b, 1965a, 1965b, 1967a, 1967b, 1967c, 1967d; Durchon, 1951; Verguer‐Bocquet, 1979
Syllis armillaris Schizogamy 4 Malaquin, 1893; Saint‐Joseph, 1886
Syllis gracilis Schizogamy 8 18 8 Boilly & Thibaut, 1974; Mesnil, 1901; Mesnil & Caullery, 1919
Syllis hyalina Schizogamy 2 Malaquin, 1893; Durchon, 1959
Syllis prolifera Schizogamy 35 40 0 7? 18 Franke, 1980, 1983, 1986; Franke & Pfannenstiel, 1984
Syllis rosea Schizogamy 2 Langerhans, 1879
Syllis variegata Schizogamy 2 Andrews, 1892; Langerhans, 1879; Malaquin, 1893; Saint‐Joseph, 1886
Syllis vittata Schizogamy Durchon, 1959; Michel, 1909b
Trypanosyllis krohnii Schizogamy Marion & Bobretzky, 1875; Michel, 1909a
Trypanosyllis zebra Schizogamy 4 5 24 Delye, 1962; Junqua, 1957; Michel, 1909b
Typosyllis antoni Schizogamy 4 14 6 4 18 16 Aguado, Helm et al., 2015; Weidhase, Beckers et al., 2016; Weidhase et al. 2017
Typosyllis pigmentata Schizogamy 60 3 10 Heacox & Schroeder, 1982

Prt,: time for prostomium appearing, in days; Time, maximum time of resegmentation, in days; N seg, maximum number of regenerated segments; Pyg, time for pygidium appearing, in days. NA, not applicable. Dashes represent lack of data.