Boccardiella ligerica (Ferronnière, 1898)

Boccardia ligerica Ferronnière, 1898: 109 –111, fig. 6a–i.— Fauvel, 1927: 57, fig. 19n–s.— Blake & Woodwick, 1971: 32 –34, fig. 1.

Boccardiella ligerica . — Blake & Kudenov, 1978: 265.— Wern, 1985: 123 –128, fig. 1.

Type locality. Estuary of Loire, France.

Type material. (ZMA 1156).

Records. USA: Aransas, Texas, Brackishwater marsh areas in Sea Rim State Park near Sabine Lake, bottom salinities ranged from 10 to 18 ppt, and temperatures from 25 to 31ºC, hard, silty-clay bottom (Wern 1985).

Remarks. Bocardiella ligerica and specimens from Gulf of Mexico differ in the presence of first notopodial lobes, shape of notochaetae of chaetiger 5 and shape of neurochaetae of chaetigers 2–4, 6, also in presence of low ridges from chaetiger 7. The identity of specimens from the Grand Caribbean is questionable and should be confirmed against the type material.