Hypsicomus capensis Day, 1961
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Hypsicomus capensis Day, 1961 |
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Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-133; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 2; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m
Distribution
Brazilian coast (State of Paraíba), South Africa ( Read and Fauchald 2020y; and this study).
Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas Beach (New record). This species represents a new record for the West Atlantic Ocean coast.
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Found inside the rhodoliths.
Diagnosis
( Day 1967b): Anterior end with branchial lobes supported by stalk; each lobe carries 12 radioles. These ones with about 20 eyespots. Collar divided at two regions lobe-like (Fig. 6 b). Collar chaetae are capillaries arranged in a line. Chaetigers 2-8 carry notochaetae capillaries and paleae with rounded blades ending in pointed tips; and neurochaetae like row of pick-axe chaetae with transparent tapered blades and a row of avicular uncini. Abdominal notochaetae are avicular uncini similar to the thoracic ones and the neurochaetae are capillaries.
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