Branchiomma nigromaculatum (Baird, 1865)

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

Branchiomma nigromaculatum (Baird, 1865)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CZAP-058; recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: 2; Location: locality: Seixas; verbatimDepth: 1.5 m

Distribution

Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, Brazilian coast ( Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo States), Angola (Luanda) and East Africa ( Amaral et al. 2013, Costa et al. 2017, Read and Fauchald 2020x).

Distribution in Paraíba: Cabo Branco Beach ( DeAssis et al. 2012), Seixas Beach ( Costa et al. 2017; and this study).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Tovar-Hernández and Knight-Jones 2006): Body with dark spots on the dorsal and ventral surfaces; interramal dark spots. Radiolar crown united at the base by short web or membrane (Fig. 6 a). A total of 46 pairs of radioles, with stylodes and dark brown bands alternating with bands of white and orange; 5-6 ventralmost radioles on each side without stylodes, arising from enrolled parts of crown basis; rachis with segmented appearance. Thoracic unciniger ( ‘tori’) carry avicular uncini. Presence of collar chaetae like compact fascicles.