Palola brasiliensis Zanol, Paiva & Attolini, 2000

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

Palola brasiliensis Zanol, Paiva & Attolini, 2000

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-081; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 5; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 4.0 m

Distribution

Brazilian coast ( Paraíba, Bahia, Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro States) ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020i).

Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas Beach ( DeAssis et al. 2012, Costa et al. 2017; and this study).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Paxton 2009, Zanol et al. 2000): Prostomium with a short anterior incision, two eyes and five smooth antennae (Fig. 3 d). Jaws eulabidognath-type (asymmetrical, posterior parts dentate to Mithraculus forceps -like, short carriers). Formula (maxillae): 1+1, 4+3, 2+0, 2+2 and 1+1. Peristomium with two smooth cirri. Branchiae with single filaments starting on chaetiger 58. Notopodial cirri digitate, anterior longer than other ones. Neuropodia carry anterior cirri digitiform, median ones inflated and posterior ones short and tapering; with limbate and falcigers and dark acicula single. Subacicular hooks absent.