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Micrura ignea Schwartz & Norenburg 2005

Description

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Two specimens up to about 100 mm long, 3 mm wide; dorsoventrally flattened; head “triangular”, pointed anteriorly and widening posteriorly; posterior end blunt with short and slender caudal cirrus. Orange grading posteriorly to yellowish. Deep cephalic furrows form lateral margins of head. Mouth slit-shaped, posterior to cephalic grooves. Eyespots lacking. Proboscis long, thick and pink; when everted it possesses ruffles.
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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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Belize (Schwartz and Norenburg 2005); Caribbean coast of Panama (Collin et al. 2005); Santa Marta, Colombia.
license
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