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Ototyphlonemertes erneba ( Correa , 1950)

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

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 https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.439.5965

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 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:12DE8ECB-1966-49A7-B5DE-89A54CE7F677

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scientific name

 Ototyphlonemertes erneba ( Correa , 1950)
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Heteronemertea Monostilifera

Ototyphlonemertes erneba ( Correa, 1950) View in CoL Fig. 4D

Description.

Up to about 12 mm long; <1 mm wide; according to ( Corrêa 1954), small meiofaunal worm dorsoventrally flattened, tapered at posterior end. Cream color. Cerebral organs and furrows present, precerebral. Eyes absent. Long sensory cirri along anterior and lateral margins of head. Pair statocysts; statolith an aggregation of 3 spherical granules. Rhynchocoel approximately half of body length; proboscis long, stout, with long papillae; anterior papillae (closest to proboscis insertion) each with rod-shaped inclusion; posterior proboscis opaque in transmitted light (white with incident light); stylet slender,> 2 × length of pyriform basis; 2 pouches with 6 accessory stylets each.

Distribution.

Brazil ( Corrêa 1950); Guajira, Colombia ( Kirsteuer 1977).

Specimens