Lysidice ninetta Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833

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

Lysidice ninetta Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-099, CZAP-105; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 5, 7; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m, 4.0 m

Distribution

Gulf of Mexico to Caribbean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean (Ireland to Mediterranean Sea), Brazilian coast ( Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia (including Abrolhos Archipelago), Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo States), Red Sea and east Australia to New Zealand ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020d).

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

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Nonato and Luna 1970, Paxton 2009, Salazar-Vallejo and Carrera-Parra 1997, Uebelacker and Johnson 1984, Zanol et al. 2014): Prostomium rounded without sulcus, with two eyes and three smooth antennae (Fig. 2 e). Lack of palps. Jaws eulabidognath-type (asymmetrical, posterior parts dentate to Mithraculus forceps -like, short carriers); mandible curved-like. Formula (maxillae): 1+1, 4+4, 5 to 6+0, 3 to 4+5 to 6 and 1+1. Peristomial cirri and branchiae absent. Notopodia carry digitiform cirri. Neuropodia carry conical cirri smaller than dorsal ones; with limbate, pectinates and falcigers chaetae; dark aciculae single and dark subacicular bidentate hooks.