Neogonodactylus torus (Manning, 1969)

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

Neogonodactylus torus (Manning, 1969)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: (CZAP-224), (CZAP-116), (CZAP-303); recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: (2), (5), (1); Location: locality: Miramar, Seixas and Maceió Beaches; verbatimDepth: (4.0 m), (1.5 m), (4.0 m)

Distribution

Southeast from United States of America to Brazilian coast ( Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia States) ( Silva 2011, WoRMS 2020e).

Distribution in Paraíba: Miramar, Seixas and Maceió Beaches (New records).

Notes

Found on the rhodoliths surface.

Diagnosis

( Albuquerque 2010): Two eyes with subglobular cornea. Carapace with slightly marked gastric sulcus. Raptorial leg with dilated dactyl at the base, slightly distally crenulated and protruded with distally serrated inner margin. Body rented dorsally. Thoracic and flat abdominal somites. Telson of Oerstedii -type, with intermediate marginal teeth distinct and intermediate denticles located anteriorly at the end of the intermediate tooth (Fig. 10 d).