Description
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Fifteen specimens up to about 160 mm long, 2.5 mm wide; dorsoventrally flattened; head elongate, can be pointy; short, slender caudal cirrus present. Black body, lips of cephalic furrows, tip of head and tail grayish or milky white. Deep cephalic furrows form lateral margins of head. Ocelli lacking. Mouth ventral, a large longitudinal slit posterior to cephalic furrows. Proboscis long, yellow, with smooth surface when everted.
- 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
Distribution
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Curaçao (Corrêa 1963), Gulf of Mexico (Norenburg 2009); Santa Marta.
- 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
