Cadlinella ornatissima
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Familia: Chromodorididae
Genus: Cadlinella
Name
Cadlinella ornatissima (Risbec, 1928) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Cadlina ornatissima Risbec, 1928: 163, fig. 47, pl. 8 fig. 4 (New Caledonia).
- Cadlinella ornatissima. – Rudman 1984[1]: 247, figs. 1, 8, 95-97 (Tanzania and Heron Island, Australia); Yonow et al. 2002[2]: 850, fig. 11c (Chagos).
Material
Sri Lanka: 13 × 6 mm pres., Unawatuna, S of Galle, SW coast, 28 December 2010, leg. S Kahlbrock. – Gulf of Oman: photos of two individuals, Muscat, Oman, 01-12 April 2009, S Kahlbrock. – La Réunion and Mayotte http://seaslugs.free.fr/nudibranche/a_intro.htm.
Description
The collected specimen was deep yellow in life with a white foot, long white rhinophores, and five white pinnate gills. The tubercles were elongated, and some were rounded whilst others were somewhat pointed; they were yellow basally and pink-red distally.
The specimen is well preserved, with some yellow remaining on the dorsum several months after collection. There is a tubercle in front of and behind each rhinophore, and three tubercles located just in front of the gill pocket. The spicules on the dorsum and in the tubercles are visible, as are the yellow tubercle bases; the distal parts are now white. Ventrally the hyponotum has an orange submarginal band and the submarginal bands of mantle glands are visible. The foot is deeply divided anteriorly, and the oral tentacles are so contracted as to be non-existent (Fig. 9).
Distribution
This appears to be only the third record of Cadlinella ornatissima in the scientific literature from the Indian Ocean, in addition to photographic records from the Gulf of Eilat (Yonow 2008[3]).
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
- ↑ Rudman W (1984) The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia, Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: a review of the genera. Zoological Journal Linnean Society 81: 115-273. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1984.tb01174.x
- ↑ Yonow N, Anderson R, Buttress S (2002) Opisthobranch molluscs from the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean. Journal of Natural History 36: 831-882. doi: 10.1080/00222930110039161
- ↑ Yonow N (2008) Sea Slugs of the Red Sea. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 304 pp.
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