Sipunculans and Echiurans of Isla del Coco (Cocos Island), Costa Rica
Author
Vargas, Rita
Author
Kawauchi, Gisele Y.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2557
60
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.196936
a2d81a5c-6c54-40d9-946d-86fa5224d0fd
1175-5326
196936
Aspidosiphon gosnoldi
E. Cutler, 1981
Material examined
. Bahía Chatham,
60 m
,
7 April 2008
,
3 specimens
, specimen removed from shell approximately
25 mm
long; Bahía Wafer,
20 m
,
SCUBA
,
10 April 2008
,
2 specimens
, one approximately
12 mm
.
Additional material
. Bahía Chatham,
16m
,
6 April 2008
,
4 specimens
, approximately
10–20 mm
;
Isla
Manuelita,
28–51m
,
17 October 2007
,
2 specimens
, approximately
20 mm
; Punta Ulloa, maërl,
39–43m
,
17 October 2007
,
2 specimens
, approximately
20–25 mm
.
Description
: The anal shield has irregularly arranged units that give it the appearance of being grooved. Rings of bidentate hooks distally on the introvert followed by numerous scattered pyramidal unidentate hooks with a dark border. The retractor muscles are attached posteriorly at the caudal shield and the nephridia are approximately 90% of the body length.
Habitat.
Subtidal, sand bottom, marl (rodolith beds), shells,
16-
60m
.
Remarks.
These specimens were deeply coiled in small rissoid gastropod shells. This is the first record for this species from
Costa Rica
.
Distribution.
This species has been previously reported from gastropod shells from Cape Hatteras to
Brazil
(
Cutler 1994
).