Cirratulus africanus Gravier, 1906

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

Cirratulus africanus Gravier, 1906

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-083; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 2; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 4.0 m

Distribution

Brazilian coast ( Paraíba, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo States), Mozambique and Red Sea ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020z).

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

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Day 1967b): Prostomium pointed, without eyes. 3-4 tentacular filaments in anterior segments (Fig. 6 c). Branchiae from chaetiger 3 to beginning of the posterior end, arising close above the notochaetae. Parapodia with capillary chaetae in notopodial and neuropodial lobes. There are also chaetae similar to intermediate between capillaries and acicular hooks and normal sigmoid hooks about the middle of the body.