Lepidonotus squamatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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

Lepidonotus squamatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-040; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 4; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

North Atlantic Ocean to Greenland, Mediterranean Sea ( Read and Fauchald 2020s) and Brazilian coast (State of Paraíba) ( Costa et al. 2017).

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

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Imajima and Hartman 1964): Prostomium with four eyes, three antennae and two palps. Dorsum covered by 12 pairs of elytra from anterior to posterior end, with papillae on the surface (first pair elytra with long marginal papillae, other ones reniform) and marginally fringed (Fig. 5 b). Notopodial region carries cirri and capillaries chaetae; neuropodial lobes enlarged with falcate chaetae.