A shore-based preliminary survey of marine ribbon worms (Nemertea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia
Author
Gonzalez-Cueto, Jaime
Author
Quiroga, Sigmer
Author
Norenburg, Jon
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ZooKeys
2014
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83
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.439.5965
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.439.5965
1313-2970-439-83
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Taxon classification Animalia Heteronemertea Valenciniidae
Baseodiscus delineatus (Delle Chiaje, 1825)
Fig. 2
C-E
Description.
Six specimens up to about 50 mm long, 2 mm wide; dorsoventrally flattened; cephalic lobe broadly rounded. Milky ground color; dorsally with abundant short interrupted reddish to brown longitudinal lines, paler or completely absent on ventral surface. Shallow, cerebral organ furrows post-cerebral, vertical and slightly oblique, with inconspicuous, orthogonally oriented secondary furrows. Numerous ocelli arranged irregularly along antero-lateral margin of head. Mouth ventral, posterior to cerebral organ furrows. Proboscis pore at anterior of head; proboscis short and thin.
Distribution.
This species seems to be circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas (
Norenburg 2009
).