Chiridota rotifera ( Pourtales , 1851)

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

Chiridota rotifera ( Pourtales, 1851)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-205; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 1; Location: locality: Miramar Beach; verbatimDepth: 4.0 m

Distribution

Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean: Mexico, Panamá coast; Tropical Western Atlantic Ocean: Gulf of Mexico to Venezuela and Brazilian coast ( Ceará, Paraíba to Alagoas, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro States) ( Prata et al. 2017, WoRMS 2020f).

Distribution in Paraíba: Cabo Branco Beach ( Gondim et al. 2008), Seixas Beach ( Prata et al. 2017) and Miramar Beach (New record).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Prata et al. 2017): Body cylindrical, elongated. Tegument thin, with some papillae or warts formed by agglomeration of ossicles. Mouth and anus terminal. Colour light pink to translucent. Body wall with wheels with six holes. Small, straight to curved (C-shaped) rods in radial zones. Tentacles with rods similar to those of body (Fig. 11 b).