Aspidosiphon (Paraspidosiphon) steenstrupii Diesing, 1859

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

Aspidosiphon (Paraspidosiphon) steenstrupii Diesing, 1859

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-111, CZAP-112; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 10, 1; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m, 4.0 m

Distribution

Gulf of Mexico and Tropical Central Atlantic Ocean ( Saiz-Salinas 2020a).

Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas Beach (New record).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Hylleberg 1994): Body semi-transparent in the middle region, darker anteriorly and posteriorly (Fig. 7 d). Anal shield covered with dark chalky points. Margin caudal shield with irregular ridges. Anterior end known as “introvert” similar in size to body; with rows of double-pointed hooks anteriorly; spines posteriorly. Longitudinal musculature in separate bands.