Chaetopleura peruviana
Description 4
Animal of medium to large size, up to 45 mm long in examined specimens. Oval to elongate oval, slightly depressed, color of tegmentum greenish-brown to dark brown. Head valve semicircular, front slope straight, posterior margin V-shaped. Intermediate valves broadly rectangular. Tail valve less than semicircular, almost as wide as head valve. Girdle profusely beset with very long (up to 10 mm) thick, coarse, corneous hairs, not only interspersed throughout girdle but in girdle bridges, protruding at sutures and extending over valves. Tegmentum pustulose sculptured with minute and neatly separated pustules, on the end valves the pustules are arranged in radiating rows. Body width/length, mean 0.66; height/length, mean 0.22 (After Ferreira 1983).
Fontes e Créditos
- (c) estebancastillo, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC), enviado por estebancastillo
- (c) anónimo, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY), https://eol.org/media/8795711
- (c) anónimo, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY), https://eol.org/media/9308206
- (c) Juan Francisco Araya, Marta Esther Araya, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/143333
