Cirolana parva Hansen, 1890

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

Cirolana parva Hansen, 1890

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-210, CZAP-238; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 1, 2; Location: locality: Miramar Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m, 4.0 m

Distribution

Tropical Atlantic Ocean: Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, Brazilian coast ( Amapá, Pará, Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia and Espírito Santo States), Northwest Africa and Red Sea ( Boyko et al. 2020, Paiva and Souza-Filho 2014).

Distribution in Paraíba: Miramar Beach (New record).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Sidabalok and Bruce 2017): Body ventrally folded rostral process that just overlaps the anterior point of the frontal lamina, the frontal lamina always pentagonal, dorsal surfaces are smooth with brown or black chromatophores, lateral margins of pleonites 3 and 4 are posteriorly produced, the pleotelson is mostly linguiform, the uropodal rami have bifid apices and the lateral margin of the uropodal exopod has a continuous row of slender plumose setae interspersed with short, acute robust setae (Fig. 10 c).