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Image of Baseodiscus delineatus (Delle Chiaje 1825)
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Baseodiscus delineatus (Delle Chiaje 1825)

Description

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Six specimens up to about 50 mm long, 2 mm wide; dorsoventrally flattened; cephalic lobe broadly rounded. Milky ground color; dorsally with abundant short interrupted reddish to brown longitudinal lines, paler or completely absent on ventral surface. Shallow, cerebral organ furrows post-cerebral, vertical and slightly oblique, with inconspicuous, orthogonally oriented secondary furrows. Numerous ocelli arranged irregularly along antero-lateral margin of head. Mouth ventral, posterior to cerebral organ furrows. Proboscis pore at anterior of head; proboscis short and thin.
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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
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Sigmer Quiroga
author
Jon Norenburg
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Distribution

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This species seems to be circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas (Norenburg 2009).
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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