Pherusa scutigera (Ehlers, 1887)

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

Pherusa scutigera (Ehlers, 1887)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-097; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 1; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

Caribbean Sea and Brazilian coast ( Paraíba, Sergipe, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul States) ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020}).

Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas Beach ( Costa et al. 2017); and this study.

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Nonato and Luna 1970): Body covered by papillae. Chaetigers 1-3 covered by thin layer of sand on the dorsal surface. Anterior region prolonged by a translucent membranous tube. Chaetae three first iridescent, forming a cephalic cage (Fig. 6 f). A waistline marks the transition between the anterior segments and the posterior ones. Chaetigers 1-5 with capillaries chaetae; following segments with ventral aciculae chaetae.