Acoela (Acoelomorpha) from the northern beaches of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and a systematic revision of the family Otocelididae
Author
Hooge, Matthew D.
Author
Rocha, Carlos E. F.
text
Zootaxa
2006
1335
1
50
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.174287
26ac73b9-1c53-4f82-bc02-78a055ba31e9
1175-5326
174287
Heterochaerus sargassi
(
Hyman, 1939
)
(
Fig. 6
B)
Amphiscolops sargassi
:
Hyman 1939
;
Marcus 1947
(p 161);
Marcus 1949
(p 9);
Marcus 1950
(p 44);
Marcus 1952
(p 18);
Marcus 1954
(p 15);
Dörjes 1968
(p 87);
Dörjes 1970
(p 262);
Dörjes and Young 1973
(p 350);
Dörjes and Karling 1975
(p 177).
Heterochaerus sargassi
:
Winsor 1990
(p 798).
Material
. Living immature specimens in squeeze preparation.
Locality
. The beach of the CEBIMar laboratory, Praia do Segredo, São Sebastião, São Paulo,
Brazil
, subtidally from
Sargassum
sp. (
23°49’39.1”S
,
45°25’20.5”W
).
Description
. Immature specimens ~
1.4 mm
in length and ~
140 m
wide (
Fig. 6
B). With many gold-colored zooxanthellae endosymbionts. Statocyst absent. Red eyespots visible at anterior end of smallest specimens.
Remarks
. Although the specimens of
Heterochaerus sargassi
originally described by
Hyman (1939)
lacked sexual organs,
Marcus (1950)
collected sexually mature specimens from Ilhabela. Except for their lack of reproductive organs, our specimens match Marcus’s (1950) description.