Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804)

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

Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-063; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 1; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

Cosmopolitan ( Read and Fauchald 2020k).

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

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Remarks: Due to its wide global distribution, this species needs a systematic review.

Diagnosis

( Day 1967a, Paxton 2009, Uebelacker and Johnson 1984): Prostomium with four eyes, without appendages (Fig. 3 f). Jaws prionognath-type with maxillary parts like scissors with blades ( “carriers”). Formula (maxillae): 1+9, 8+14, 7+5, 1+4 and 1+1. Anterior notopodial cirri longer than posterior ones. Neuropodia carry pre- and post-chaetal lobes; serrated winged capillaries and yellow acicula.