Micrura ignea Schwartz & Norenburg, 2005

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 : 92

Taxon classification Animalia Heteronemertea Lineidae

Micrura ignea Schwartz & Norenburg, 2005 Fig. 3 A–D

Description.

Two specimens up to about 100 mm long, 3 mm wide; dorsoventrally flattened; head “triangular”, pointed anteriorly and widening posteriorly; posterior end blunt with short and slender caudal cirrus. Orange grading posteriorly to yellowish. Deep cephalic furrows form lateral margins of head. Mouth slit-shaped, posterior to cephalic grooves. Eyespots lacking. Proboscis long, thick and pink; when everted it possesses ruffles.

Distribution.

Belize ( Schwartz and Norenburg 2005); Caribbean coast of Panama ( Collin et al. 2005); Santa Marta, Colombia.