Phyllodoce schmardaei Day, 1963

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

Phyllodoce schmardaei Day, 1963

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-128; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 1; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 4.0 m

Distribution

South Africa, English Channel, Mediterranean Sea and Brazilian coast (State of Paraíba) ( Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020r).

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

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Day 1967a): Body green. Prostomium with two eyes, four antennae, nuchal organs and a small posterior-median papilla. Proboscis divided at two parts, proximal one with soft papillae, distal one papillated with six divisions. Four pairs of modified anterior cirri ("tentacular cirri") (Fig. 5 a). Parapodia carry dorsal enlarged foliaceous cirri and neuropodial lobe with spinigers chaetae.