Phascolosoma (Phascolosoma) nigrescens (Keferstein, 1865)

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

Phascolosoma (Phascolosoma) nigrescens (Keferstein, 1865)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: (CZAP-174, CZAP-182), (CZAP-150); recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: (1, 1), (1); Location: locality: Miramar and Seixas Beaches; verbatimDepth: (1.5 m, 4.0 m), (4.0 m)

Distribution

Circumtropical ( Saiz-Salinas 2020b).

Distribution in Paraíba: Miramar and Seixas Beaches (New records).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Hylleberg 1994): Body marbled with brown flecks and bands. Anterior end known as “introvert” longer than the body, carrying numerous rows of hooks and the dorsal side crossed by brownish bands intermingled with lighter ones (Fig. 7 e). Hooks with a distinct streak (triangle and internal clear steak not divided), prominent swelling of proximal crescent. Above 20 tentacles.