Echiurus echiurus (Pallas, 1766)

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

Echiurus echiurus (Pallas, 1766)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: (CZAP-114), (CZAP-213); recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: (1), (2); Location: locality: Seixas and Maceió Beaches; verbatimDepth: (4.0 m), (4.0 m)

Distribution

West and east from North and Central Atlantic Ocean, Brazilian coast (State of Paraíba), Arctic Ocean and New Zealand ( WoRMS 2020a; this study).

Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas and Maceió Beaches (New records). This species represents a new record from the Brazilian coast.

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Biseswar 1997): Proboscis spoon-shaped with brown streaks. Head with two ventral golden chaetae (Fig. 7 c). Body with outer layer of integument in posterior half of trunk separated from inner layers, but still attached to trunk. Conical papillae, projecting from surface of integument, arranged in concentric rings around trunk. To the naked eye, papillae appear as spherical, transparent spots. Rows of larger papillae alternate with three or four rows of uniform smaller papillae. Two rows of anal chaetae around posterior end.