Timarete punctata (Grube, 1859)

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

Timarete punctata (Grube, 1859)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: (CZAP-184), (CZAP-066, CZAP-091); recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: (1), (7, 1); Location: locality: Miramar and Seixas Beaches; verbatimDepth: (4.0 m), (1.5 m, 4.0 m)

Distribution

Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies and Brazilian coast ( Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo States) ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020|).

Distribution in Paraíba: Mataraca, Baía da Traição, Rio Tinto, João Pessoa (including Seixas Beach) and Conde Municipalities ( DeAssis et al. 2012, Costa et al. 2017; and this study) and Miramar Beach (New record).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Çinar 2007): Robust prostomium bluntly pointed in anterior end, without eyes. Peristomium with two segmentations. Tentacular filaments from chaetigers 3 and 4, forming two evident groups, each with five filaments (Fig. 6 e). Branchiae from chaetiger 1 to posterior segments. Parapodia with capillary chaetae in notopodial and neuropodial lobes. Acicular spines (slightly sigmoid, with truncated tips) from notochaetae 8 and neurochaetae 6; pale brown.