Eurythoe complanata (Pallas, 1766)

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

Eurythoe complanata (Pallas, 1766)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-169; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 4; Location: locality: Miramar Beach; verbatimDepth: 4.0 m

Distribution

Caribbean Sea to Brazil ( Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo States); Iberian Peninsula to Red Sea; Azores Archipelago; East Africa; Pacific Ocean (Oceania to South America and Hawaii) ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020a).

Distribution in Paraíba: Barra de Camaratuba Beach, Mamanguape River, Cabo Branco Beach ( DeAssis et al. 2012), Seixas Beach ( Costa et al. 2017) and Miramar Beach (New record).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Arias et al. 2013, Barroso and Paiva 2007): This species carries a prostomium with four eyes (trapezoidally arranged), three smooth antennae, two cirriform palps and a fleshy dorsal protuberance known as caruncle, extending to the third chaetiger. Branchiae ramified from chaetiger 2. Each parapodium with two slender/digitiform cirri (dorsal and ventral, similar in size, Fig. 2 b); notopodia (dorsal) with the following kinds of chaetae: furcate, smooth, serrated and a slender blade with a small spur; neuropodia (ventral) with furcate chaetae.