Neopseudocapitella brasiliensis Rullier & Amoureux, 1979

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

Neopseudocapitella brasiliensis Rullier & Amoureux, 1979

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-161; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 1; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

Brazilian coast ( Paraíba, Sergipe and Bahia States), Iberian Peninsula, and Mediterranean Sea ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020u).

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

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Amaral 1980, Rullier and Amoureux 1979): Prostomium conical-shaped with two eyespots and nuchal organs, without antennae (Fig. 5 d). Proboscis enlarged and voluminous. Parapodial cirri absent. Capillaries chaetae start from chaetiger one, hooks from chaetiger 12.