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Image of Ototyphlonemertes (Macintoshi) lactea Corrêa 1953
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Ototyphlonemertes (Macintoshi) lactea Corrêa 1953

Description

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Two specimens up to about 3.5 mm long; < 0.3 mm wide; truncated at both ends. Milky white color. Cerebral organs and associated furrows absent. Without ocelli. Two ovoid statocysts present, statolith formed by more than 10 spherical granules. Rhynchocoel short, about one-third of body length; proboscis very short; posterior proboscis vesicular (translucent) with transmitted light; armature at middle of proboscis; stylet slender, helically sculpted (length: 15 µm); basis thin, cylindrical (14 × 2 µm); 2 pouches with 3 accessory stylets each.
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Jaime Gonzalez-Cueto, Sigmer Quiroga, Jon Norenburg
bibliographic citation
Gonzalez-Cueto J, Quiroga S, Norenburg J (2014) A shore-based preliminary survey of marine ribbon worms (Nemertea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia ZooKeys 439: 83–108
author
Jaime Gonzalez-Cueto
author
Sigmer Quiroga
author
Jon Norenburg
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Distribution

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Brazil (Corrêa 1950); Guajira, Colombia (Kirsteuer 1977); Santa Marta, Colombia.
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cc-by-3.0
copyright
Jaime Gonzalez-Cueto, Sigmer Quiroga, Jon Norenburg
bibliographic citation
Gonzalez-Cueto J, Quiroga S, Norenburg J (2014) A shore-based preliminary survey of marine ribbon worms (Nemertea) from the Caribbean coast of Colombia ZooKeys 439: 83–108
author
Jaime Gonzalez-Cueto
author
Sigmer Quiroga
author
Jon Norenburg
original
visit source
partner site
Zookeys