Lepidodermella sp.

Lepidodermella sp.

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Localities: PT6-11 (Fig. 1).

Examined Material: 23 specimens. TL 97–165 Μm; FL 6–13 Μm; AL 9–23 Μm; PhL 24–45 Μm; MD 5–10 Μm; DR 25–31; TSl 4–9 Μm; TSw 5–9Μm; DC 7–11; VC 5; VB 15; VR 10 .

Remarks: Small rounded body, with weakly five-lobed head followed by subtle neck constriction, posterior trunk subtly wider than head. Small and transversally elliptic cephalion with small pleura tangent laterally, square small hypostomium with two anterior hooks. Dorsal surface cover- ed by smooth scales with anterior double-edged margin. Dorsal head scales longitudinally elliptic, with obtuse angle posteriorly. Dorsal neck scales are rectangular followed by longer sub-rectangular dorsal trunk scales. Ventral ciliation in two separate longitudinal bands. Interciliary area is covered by 20 transverse cuticular plates below the pharynx and anterior intestine, followed by five columns of smooth rounded quadrangular scales. The specimens feature the characteristic cuticular ornamentation, with smooth spineless keelless scales covering whole dorsal and ventral body, but the genus has extremely tenuous diagnostic characters of species determination, and cannot be putatively related to any known species, remaining as “sp.”.

Distribution: Brazil: Paulo Afonso, Casa Nova, Abaré, Chorrochó (BA), Delmiro Gouveia (AL) (present study).