Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje, 1828)

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

Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje, 1828)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: (CZAP-242, CZAP-209), (CZAP-190); recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: (1, 1), (1); Location: locality: Miramar and Seixas Beaches; verbatimDepth: (1.5 m, 4.0 m), (1.5 m)

Distribution

Cosmopolitan; in Brazilian coast the species was reported from Pará, Maranhão, Ceará, Paraíba, Alagoas, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo States ( Prata et al. 2017, Stöhr et al. 2020b).

Distribution in Paraíba: Cabo Branco Beach ( Gondim et al. 2008), Seixas Beach ( Prata et al. 2017) and Miramar Beach (New record).

Notes

Found on the rhodoliths surface.

Remarks: Due to its wide global distribution, this species needs a systematic review.

Diagnosis

( Prata et al. 2017): Disc rounded, covered by medium size scales, with circular to semicircular imbricated scales. Radial shields slightly longer than wide, separated by a thin scale up to the distal region of the shields. Ventral surface of the disc covered by scales similar to dorsal scales. Bursal slits narrow, near the first plate of the arms. Diamond-shaped oral shield, adoral shields longer than wide, touching the proximal edge. Two oral papillae in each side of jaw, the more distal larger and trapezoidal, the other rounded and smaller. A pair of elongated infradental papillae. Five arms, about five times the disc diameter (Fig. 11 d).