Dulichiella appendiculata (Say, 1818)

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

Dulichiella appendiculata (Say, 1818)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-122; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 4; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

United States of America, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Cuba, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Brazilian coast (State of Paraíba), South Africa and Mozambique ( Serejo and Siqueira 2018, Horton et al. 2020b; this study).

Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas Beach (New record). This species represents a new record from the Brazilian coast.

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Lowry and Springthorpe 2007): Head with two eyes; lateral cephalic lobe enlarged, truncated, antero-ventral corner with slender chaeta. Antenna 1 peduncular article 1 shorter than article 2, with 3 prominent chaetae along posterior margin. Antenna 2 peduncular article 2 cone gland reaching at least to end of peduncular article 3; article 4 slightly longer than article 5 (Fig. 9 c). Mandibular palp article 1 about as long as broad, inner margin article 1 not produced distally; article 2 slightly longer than article 3.