Marphysa angelensis Fauchald, 1970

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

Marphysa angelensis Fauchald, 1970

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-153; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 1; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

Gulf of California, Gulf of Mexico and Brazilian coast ( Paraíba and São Paulo States) ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020f).

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

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Fauchald 1970, Paxton 2009, Salazar-Vallejo and Carrera-Parra 1997): Prostomium with a short anterior incision, with two eyes and five smooth antennae. Jaws eulabidognath-type (asymmetrical, posterior parts dentate to Mithraculus forceps -like, short carriers). Formula (maxillae): 1+1, 3+5, 6+0, 3+8 and 1+1. Peristomial cirri absent. Ramified branchiae (1 to 3 filaments) from chaetiger 9 (Fig. 3 a). Anterior notopodial cirri enlarged and posterior ones digitiform, both types longer than ventral ones. Neuropodia with anterior cirri globular, posterior ones conical; limbate, pectinates, falcigers and spinigers chaetae; 1-3 dark aciculae by chaetiger and dark subacicular bidentate hooks.