Acanthochitona terezae Guerra Junior , 1983

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

Acanthochitona terezae Guerra Junior, 1983

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-142; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 1; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

Brazilian coast: Paraíba, Pernambuco (Fernando de Noronha Archipelago), Bahia and Espírito Santo States (Trindad Islands, MD55 station) ( Jardim et al. 2017, MolluscaBase 2020g; this study).

Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas Beach (New record). This species represents a new record from the State of Paraíba coast.

Notes

Found on the rhodoliths surface.

Diagnosis

( Jardim et al. 2017): Mollusc with many plates on surface. Tegument with many white spots mainly on apical region. Girdle white with transverse orange bands. Intermediate valves trapezoidal to oblong in outline, subcarinate, weakly beaked (Fig. 9 a). Pustules on latero-pleural area round to oval, randomly arranged; each pustule convex, bearing 4-7 pores on superior to median surface. Tail valve with prominent, submedian mucro; postmucronal area concave. Dorsal side of girdle covered with minute elongated spicules; spicule height about 8-9 times as long as wide, sculptured by longitudinal parallel fissures. Sutural tufts with elongated spicules and sculptured by longitudinal fissures.