Phragmatopoma caudata Kroyer in Moerch , 1863

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

Phragmatopoma caudata Kroyer in Moerch, 1863

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: (CZAP-039), (CZAP-280); recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: (1), (6); Location: locality: Seixas and Maceió Beaches; verbatimDepth: (1.5 m), (4.0 m)

Distribution

Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, Brazilian coast ( Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina States) and north of the South China Sea (Pratas Islands) ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020w).

Distribution in Paraíba: Infralittoral region from Cabedelo Municipality (after coral reefs zones known as "Areia Vermelha" and “Barretas”), Bessa Beach ( DeAssis et al. 2012), Seixas Beach ( Costa et al. 2017; and this study) and Maceió Beach (New record).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Capa et al. 2012): Anterior end with an operculum longer than wide, with merged lobes in shallow mid-ventral indentation. Distal disc flat and perpendicular to longitudinal axis, with opercular papillae around it (Fig. 5 f). Outer paleae arranged in curved line. Inner operculum paleae like two concentric rows, with paleae geniculate carrying convex blades. Pectinate tentacular filaments arranged in series of rows. Palps similar in length to operculum. Neuropodia of chaetiger 1 carry one conical cirri. Chaetiger 2 carry four triangular-shaped lobes. Thorax with branchiae. Three parathoracic segments, with lanceolate and capillaries chaetae.