Microphiopholis gracillima (Stimpson, 1854)

Costa, Dimitri de Araujo, Dolbeth, Marina, Prata, Jessica, da Silva, Francisco de Assis, da Silva, Geuba Maria Bernardo, de Freitas, Paulo Ragner Silva, Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey, de Lima, Silvio Felipe Barbosa, Massei, Karina & de Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva, 2021, Marine invertebrates associated with rhodoliths / maerl beds from northeast Brazil (State of Paraiba), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 62736-62736 : 62736

Microphiopholis gracillima (Stimpson, 1854)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: (CZAP-175), (CZAP-104); recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: (1), (2); Location: locality: Miramar and Seixas bBeaches; verbatimDepth: (4.0 m), (4.0 m)

Distribution

United States of America (South Carolina and Florida) Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Caribbean Sea and Brazilian coast ( Paraíba, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro States) ( Prata et al. 2017, Stöhr et al. 2020c).

Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas Beach ( Prata et al. 2017) and Miramar Beach (New record).

Notes

Found on the rhodoliths surface.

Diagnosis

( Prata et al. 2017): Disc rounded with indentations in the radial region. Disc covered by numerous small and imbricated scales. Radial shields narrow and elongated, joined at half of length and then separated by three scales on the proximal edge. Ventral surface of disc covered by small and imbricated scales. Bursal slit large, near the first to fourth ventral arm plate. Oral shield diamond-shaped. Adoral shield elongated and slightly wide distally. Jaws with three oral papillae, the more distal rectangular, larger than proximal papilla. Arms long, about six to eight times the diameter of the disc (Fig. 11 e).