Cyclodorippe longifrons Campos Junior & De Melo, 1999

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

Cyclodorippe longifrons Campos Junior & De Melo, 1999

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-144; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 1; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

Brazilian coast ( Paraíba and São Paulo States) ( Melo et al. 2003, WoRMS 2020b; this study).

Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas Beach (New record).

Notes

Found on the rhodoliths surface.

Diagnosis

( Campos-Junior and Melo 1999): Peduncular eyes with very reduced mobility, well-developed cornea. Subcircular carapace, adorned with fine granules. Orbital margin longer than half the maximum width of the carapace and trimmed with fine bristles. Rounded front edge with bristles, with the entire front region heavily excavated. Advanced front in relation to the orbital-external angles of the carapace. Narrow and excavated orbit, undeveloped antennular sumps (Fig. 9 d).