Cirriformia capensis (Schmarda, 1861)

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

Cirriformia capensis (Schmarda, 1861)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-229; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 1; Location: locality: Miramar Beach; verbatimDepth: 4.0 m

Distribution

Gulf of Mexico, Brazilian coast (State of Paraíba) and South Africa ( Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020{).

Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas Beach ( Costa et al. 2017), Miramar Beach (New record).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Day 1967b): Anterior end of prostomium rounded, without eyes. Anterior chaetigers carry numerous tentacular cirri (Fig. 6 d). Branchiae from chaetiger 1 to the posterior end. Robust single filaments and, in the middle of the body, they rise further above the notochaetae. Parapodia with capillary chaetae in notopodial and neuropodial lobes. Sigmoid hooks appear about chaetiger 12.