Philinopsis speciosa
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Familia: Aglajidae
Genus: Philinopsis
Name
Philinopsis speciosa Pease, 1860 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Philinopsis speciosa Pease, 1860: 21 (Hawaii); Gosliner et al. 2008[1]: 29 (Pacific); Yogesh Kumar et al. 2011[2]: 106, fig. 1a (India).
- Doridium cyaneum: Eliot 1903a[3]: 334 (Zanzibar).
- Aglaja cyanea: Macnae 1962[4]: 193 (South Africa).
- Philinopsis cyanea (Martens). – Rudman 1972[5]: 394, fig. 15 (Zanzibar); Gosliner 1987[6]: 41, fig. 9 (South Africa); Yonow 1992[7]: 199, figs. 1, 2 (Gulf of Eilat and Maldives); Yonow 1994a[8]: 103, fig. 2A, 4D (Maldives); Yonow 2008[9]: 81 (Red Sea); Richmond 2011[10]: 276 (East Africa) (syn. n.)
Material
Maldives: two specimens, 18 mm and 12 mm pres., Maayafushi Channel, Ari Atoll, 7-17 m depth on sandy slope, 12 October 1994, leg. RC Anderson & SG Buttress; 24 mm (MDV/AB/96/5), Fulidhoo lagoon, Felidhoo Atoll, 7 m depth, 03 May 1996, leg. RC Anderson & SG Buttress. – La Réunion, photographs of several individuals http://seaslugs.free.fr/nudibranche/a_intro.htm. – Tanzania: photograph of single individual, Mafia Island, shallow water, 31 July 2004, A de Villiers.
Distribution/Remarks
The photographs on the La Réunion website [11]show mating, egg laying, and egg development during the breeding season, November. This common Indo-West Pacific species known as Philinopsis cyanea, with an extremely variable colour pattern, has an older name, Philinopsis speciosa, which was previously considered as endemic to Hawaii. Rudman (http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/philspec) states that there are no anatomical differences between the two, and Gosliner et al. (2008)[1] have combined them under the older name with no discussion or comment. Pease (1860)[12] described the habit of stressed slugs vomiting perfect shells of Bulla, as recorded for specimens from the Red Sea (Yonow 1992[7]) and Zanzibar (Rudman, Sea Slug Forum). Philinopsis cyanea is formally synonymised with Philinopsis speciosa in this work.
Taxon Treatment
- Yonow, N; 2012: Opisthobranchs from the western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species and ten new records (Mollusca, Gastropoda) ZooKeys, 197: 1-130. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gosliner T, Behrens D, Valdés A (2008) Indo-Pacific Nudibranchs and Sea Slugs. A Field guide to the world’s most diverse fauna. Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Washington, U.S.A., 425 pp.
- ↑ Yogesh Kumar J, Sreeraj C, Sornaraj R (2011) Opisthobranchs of the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India. Indian Journal of Fisheries 58(4): 105–114. http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJF/article/view/13788
- ↑ Eliot C (1903a) Notes on some new or little known members of the family Doridiidae. Proceedings Malacological Society, London 5: 331-337.
- ↑ Macnae W (1962) Tectibranch molluscs from Southern Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 15 (16): 183-199.
- ↑ Rudman W (1972) A comparative study of the genus Philinopsis Pease, 1860 (Aglajidae, Opisthobranchia). Pacific Science 26 (4): 381-399.
- ↑ Gosliner T (1987) Nudibranchs of Southern Africa. A guide to Opisthobranch molluscs of Southern Africa. EJ Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, 136 pp.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Yonow N (1992) Observations on the diet of Philinopsis cyanea (Martens) (Cephalaspidea, Aglajidae). Journal of Conchology 34 (4): 199-204.
- ↑ Yonow N (1994a) Opisthobranchs from the Maldive Islands, including descriptions of seven new species (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Revue française d’aquariologie herpétologie 20 (4): 97-130.
- ↑ Yonow N (2008) Sea Slugs of the Red Sea. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 304 pp.
- ↑ Richmond M (2011) A Field Guide to the Seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean Islands, 3rd edition. Sida/SAREC-UDSM, Sweden, 464 pp.
- ↑ La Réunion website http://seaslugs.free.fr/nudibranche/a_intro.htm
- ↑ Pease W (1860) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands. Proceedings Zoological Society, London 28: 18-37.
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