Nereis riisei Grube, 1857

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

Nereis riisei Grube, 1857

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-158; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 1; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Brazilian coast ( Pará, Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina States) ( Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020p).

Distribution in Paraíba: Lucena Beach ( DeAssis et al. 2012), Seixas Beach ( Costa et al. 2017) and Maceió Beach (New record).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Amaral et al. 2005, Santos and Lana 2003, Uebelacker and Johnson 1984): Prostomium with four eyes, two antennae, and two palps (Fig. 4 e). Proboscis with conical paragnaths (area I with one paragnath, area II 10, area III with 18-20, area IV with 26-30, area V none, area VI with six, area VII and VIII with five) and serrated jaws. Four pairs of modified anterior cirri ("tentacular cirri"). Parapodia with notopodial and neuropodial lobes (with pre- and post-chaetal lobes) of same size, falcigers and spinigers chaetae and dark aciculae.