Sipuncula from southern Brazil

ARTIGOS

Sipuncula from southern Brazil

Edward B. Cutler^*; Norma J. Cutler^*

Utica College of Syracuse University

SYNOPSIS

A collection of 291 sipunculans from the continental shelf off southern Brazil is described. Ten species are included, two new to science (Phascolion medusae and Aspidosiphon longirhyncus). The latter comprises 74% of the specimens collected. Four are recorded for the first time in the southwestern Atlantic Oceccn (Golfingia eremita, G. pellucida, A. Albus, and A. exhaustus). The remaining two (G. misakiana and P. hedraeum) have been recorded from Brazilian waters before. While most of the material represents a warm, shallow water community (the southern end of the South Brazilian Province), another group of species found south of 34ºS in deepercooler water points to the possibility of a zoogeographical barrier on the continental slope in these latitudes.

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Acknowledgements

This interesting collection of sipunculans was made available to us for study by Dr. Luiz Roberto Tommasi, Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto Oceanografico, Brazil. The artwork was done by Mr. Henry Iwanicki and the manuscript was completed with the aid of a grant from Utica College.

(Received in 09/November/1978)

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Bilogy Deparment, Utica College of Syracuse University, Utica, New York 13502. U.S.A.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  04 June 2012
• Date of issue
  1980

History

• Received
  09 Nov 1978