Ototyphlonemertes lactea ( Correa , 1954)

Gonzalez-Cueto, Jaime, Quiroga, Sigmer & Norenburg, Jon, 2014, A shore-based preliminary survey of marine ribbon worms (Nemertea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, ZooKeys 439, pp. 83-108 : 96

Taxon classification Animalia Heteronemertea Monostilifera

Ototyphlonemertes lactea ( Correa, 1954) Fig. 4 E–G

Description.

Two specimens up to about 3.5 mm long; <0.3 mm wide; truncated at both ends. Milky white color. Cerebral organs and associated furrows absent. Without ocelli. Two ovoid statocysts present, statolith formed by more than 10 spherical granules. Rhynchocoel short, about one-third of body length; proboscis very short; posterior proboscis vesicular (translucent) with transmitted light; armature at middle of proboscis; stylet slender, helically sculpted (length: 15 µm); basis thin, cylindrical (14 × 2 µm); 2 pouches with 3 accessory stylets each.

Distribution.

Brazil ( Corrêa 1950); Guajira, Colombia ( Kirsteuer 1977); Santa Marta, Colombia.