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Cryptonome parvecarunculata (Horst 1912)

Distribution

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Circumtropical (?). Indonesia (type locality). Also recorded from: Xisha Island, South China Sea; Yellow Sea, East China Sea; Moreton Bay, Australia; Bay of Bengal; Mozambique; South Africa; Gold Coast, West Africa; Brazil; French Guyana; Sanibel Island, Florida, Gulf of Mexico; Galeta Island, Atlantic Panama.

Reference

Borda, Elizabeth; Kudenov, Jerry D.; Bienhold, Christina; Rouse, Greg W. (2012). Towards a revised Amphinomidae (Annelida, Amphinomida): description and affinities of a new genus and species from the Nile Deep-sea Fan, Mediterranean Sea. Zoologica Scripta. 41(3): 307-325.

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Habitat

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Possible xylophile occupying burrows of the foliaceous shipworm Nototeredo knoxi (Bartsch, 1917), as reported from specimens in Panama, by Maddocks (1979).

References

  • Borda, Elizabeth; Kudenov, Jerry D.; Bienhold, Christina; Rouse, Greg W. (2012). Towards a revised Amphinomidae (Annelida, Amphinomida): description and affinities of a new genus and species from the Nile Deep-sea Fan, Mediterranean Sea. Zoologica Scripta. 41(3): 307-325.
  • Maddocks, R.F. (1979a) Two new examples of symbiosis or parasitism in cypridacean Ostracoda. Crustaceana 37, 1–12.

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João Gil [email]