Branchiomma nigromaculatum (Baird, 1865)
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Branchiomma nigromaculatum (Baird, 1865) |
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Branchiomma nigromaculatum (Baird, 1865) View in CoL View at ENA
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-058; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 2; Location: locality: Seixas; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m
Distribution
Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, Brazilian coast ( Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo States), Angola (Luanda) and East Africa ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020x).
Distribution in Paraíba: Cabo Branco Beach ( DeAssis et al. 2012), Seixas Beach ( Costa et al. 2017; and this study).
Notes
Found inside the rhodoliths.
Diagnosis
( Tovar-Hernández and Knight-Jones 2006): Body with dark spots on the dorsal and ventral surfaces; interramal dark spots. Radiolar crown united at the base by short web or membrane (Fig. 6 a). A total of 46 pairs of radioles, with stylodes and dark brown bands alternating with bands of white and orange; 5-6 ventralmost radioles on each side without stylodes, arising from enrolled parts of crown basis; rachis with segmented appearance. Thoracic unciniger ( ‘tori’) carry avicular uncini. Presence of collar chaetae like compact fascicles.
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