Eunice biannulata Moore, 1904

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

Eunice biannulata Moore, 1904

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: (CZAP-246, CZAP-232), (CZAP-092, CZAP-183); recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: (2, 4), (21, 1); Location: locality: Miramar and Seixas Beaches; verbatimDepth: (1.5 m, 4.0 m), (1.5 m, 4.0 m)

Distribution

Pacific coast from United States of America, Brazil (Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia and Paraná States) ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Nonato and Luna 1970, Read and Fauchald 2020b).

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

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Fauchald 1992, Paxton 2009): Prostomium with a median sulcus deep, with four eyes (arranged in a curved line) and five segmented antennae (Fig. 2 c). Jaws eulabidognath-type (asymmetrical, posterior parts dentate to Mithraculus forceps -like, short carriers). Formula (maxillae): 1+1, 5 to 6+5 to 6, 6+0, 6+10 and 1+1. Peristomium with two segmented cirri. Branchiae pectinate (1 to 8 filaments) from chaetiger 3. Parapodia with notopodial medially inflated cirri, with articulations (anterior and median ones) or without articulations (posterior ones), larger than ventral ones; neuropodia carry anterior inflated basally cirri and posterior ones digitiform, pre- and post-chaetal lobes, limbate, pectinate and falcigers chaetae, yellow aciculae paired and yellow subacicular bidentate hooks.