Table 3. Methyl green staining pattern, depth and type locality of Notomastus species bearing hooded hooks in thoracic chaetigers.
Species Methyl green staining pattern Depth Type locality
N. angelicae Hernández-Alcántara and Solís-Weiss, 1998 Chaetigers 1-2 medium green, 3-11 dark green 28.6 m Sinaloa, Gulf of California
N. daueri Ewing, 1982 Chaetigers 3-6 medium green, 7-11 dark green 5.6-33.5 m Louisiana, Northern Gulf of Mexico
N. mossambicus (Thomassin, 1970) - 50-70 m Madagascar
N. precocis Hartman, 1960 Chaetigers 1-8 dark green, 9-11 medium green with circle dark green bands 1305 m Santa Catalina Basin, California
N. sunae Lin, García-Garza, Lyu & Wang, 2020 Thorax blue stained with different intensity; abdomen with a paired stripe of ventral stain, very dark blue colour on dorsum Intertidal to 23 m Xiamen Bay, Southern China
N. teres Hartman, 1965 Chaetigers 2-10 medium green with dark green bands, 11 dark green 500-4667 m Bermuda; New England, USA
Notomastus sp. A of Ewing, 1984a - 19-60 m Off Texas, Northern Gulf of Mexico
Notomastus bermejoi sp. nov. Chaetigers 1-4 slightly stained; chaetigers 5-10 with green bands encircling the segments, chaetigers 11-12 with a darker, solid, green band encircling body 32-106.4 m Gulf of California