Hypsicomus capensis Day, 1961

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

Hypsicomus capensis Day, 1961

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-133; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 2; Location: locality: Seixas Beach; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

Brazilian coast (State of Paraíba), South Africa ( Read and Fauchald 2020y; and this study).

Distribution in Paraíba: Seixas Beach (New record). This species represents a new record for the West Atlantic Ocean coast.

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Day 1967b): Anterior end with branchial lobes supported by stalk; each lobe carries 12 radioles. These ones with about 20 eyespots. Collar divided at two regions lobe-like (Fig. 6 b). Collar chaetae are capillaries arranged in a line. Chaetigers 2-8 carry notochaetae capillaries and paleae with rounded blades ending in pointed tips; and neurochaetae like row of pick-axe chaetae with transparent tapered blades and a row of avicular uncini. Abdominal notochaetae are avicular uncini similar to the thoracic ones and the neurochaetae are capillaries.