Zygonemertes fragariae Correa , 1955

Gonzalez-Cueto, Jaime, Quiroga, Sigmer & Norenburg, Jon, 2014, A shore-based preliminary survey of marine ribbon worms (Nemertea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, ZooKeys 439, pp. 83-108 : 96-97

Taxon classification Animalia Heteronemertea Monostilifera

Zygonemertes fragariae Correa, 1955 Fig. 4 H–J

Description.

One specimen up to about 12 mm long, 1 mm wide; dorsoventrally flattened, bluntly rounded at both ends. Body vivid pinkish strawberry-red. Cerebral organ furrows shallow, precerebral. Pair irregular rows of 8-13 ocelli each on each side of head; row of about 10 ocelli between brain and each lateral margin of body and reaching post-cerebrally into foregut region. Rhynchopore subterminal; rhynchocoel to about middle of body length; proboscis long and thick with thin papillae; central stylet thin (length: 45 µm); basis smooth, cylindrical (54 × 14 µm); 2 pouches with 2 or 3 accessory stylets each. Epidermis with minute crescent-shaped intracellular spicules.

Distribution.

São Sebastião (Brazil) ( Corrêa 1954); Santa Marta, Colombia.