Enchiridium evelinae Marcus, 1949

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

Enchiridium evelinae Marcus, 1949

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-102; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 2; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

Brazil ( Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Alagoas, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo States) ( Bahia et al. 2015, Tyler et al. 2020; and this study).

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

Notes

Found on the rhodoliths surface.

Diagnosis

( Bahia et al. 2014): Flatworm of free-living, long and narrow body; dorsal region cream with brown dots, more densely disposed at the median line; margin with orange dots (Fig. 2 a); pharynx reaches 1/3 of the body length; seminal and prostatic vesicles highly muscularized; penis papilla and male atrium long.