Odontosyllis aracaensis Fukuda, Nogueira, Paresque & San Martín 2013

Paresque, Karla, Fukuda, Marcelo Veronesi, Martín, Guillermo San & Nogueira, João Miguel De Matos, 2015, Amblyosyllis, Eusyllis, Odontosyllis, Perkinsyllis and Streptodonta (Annelida: Syllidae) from Brazil, with descriptions of two new species and new records for the country, Zootaxa 4000 (3), pp. 301-334 : 320-321

Odontosyllis aracaensis Fukuda, Nogueira, Paresque & San Martín 2013

Odontosyllis aracaensis Fukuda, Nogueira, Paresque & San Martín, 2013: 144 –150, figs 1A, 2–3. Odontosyllis sp. 1. Fukuda 2010: 56 –60, figs 14–15.

Material examined. Project ‘BioPol-NE’. State of Paraíba, Conde, Praia de Tambaba (7°21.352'S 34°47.890'W), intertidal: 2 specimens ( MZUSP 2784), coll. 30 August 2011. Pitimbu, Farol de Pitimbu (7°28.362'S 34°47.663'W), 1 m: 2 specimens ( MZUSP 2786), coll. 18 September 2012. State of Pernambuco, Goiana, Praia de Pontas de Pedra (7°36.927'S 34°48.296'W), intertidal: 1 specimen ( MZUSP 2788), coll. 13 December 2012. Ilha de Itamaracá, recifes de Itamaracá (7°43.944'S 34°49.2'W), 1 m: 2 specimens ( MZUSP 2785), coll. 15 December 2012; Ponta do Jaguaribe (7°4.243'S 34°49.291'W), intertidal: 4 specimens ( MZUSP 2787), coll. 11 December 2012.

Diagnosis. Odontosyllis with a large dorsal transversal stripe on each chaetiger; one pair of round, large spots at midline of each chaetiger ventrally; blades of falcigers bidentate, with both teeth similar in length in anterior chaetigers and in mid- and porterior body dorsalmost chaetae, subdistal tooth smaller in mid- and posterior body ventralmost chaetae.

Type locality. Brazil, São Paulo, São Sebastião, Praia do Araçá (Atlantic Ocean).

Distribution. Atlantic Ocean: off northeastern to southeastern coast of Brazil (Paraíba to São Paulo).