Terebella pterochaeta Schmarda, 1861

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

Terebella pterochaeta Schmarda, 1861

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-073; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 2; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

Caribbean Sea, Colombia, Brazilian coast ( Paraíba and São Paulo States), South Africa, Mozambique and Red Sea ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020).

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

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Day 1967b): Prostomium with delineated dorsal and ventral lips. Two pairs of branchiae at anterior end (Fig. 7 b). About 16 ventral pads followed by a narrow streak of glandular tissue in a ventral groove along the abdomen. Uncini on ventral tori originate from ventral ridges on the abdomen, with 3-4 teeth. Notochaetae: anterior ones with winged shafts and denticulate tips which become proportionately larger on posterior segments until they form most of the blade.