Chromodoris annulata
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Familia: Chromodorididae
Genus: Chromodoris
Name
Chromodoris annulata Eliot, 1904 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Chromodoris annulata Eliot, 1904a: 389, pl. 24, figs. 1-3 (Zanzibar); Edmunds 1971[1]: 371, fig. 15 (Tanzania); Rudman 1973a[2]: 189, pl. 1A (Zanzibar); Gosliner 1987[3]: 74, fig. 106 (South Africa); Yonow 1989[4]: 293, pl. 2 (Red Sea); Debelius and Kuiter 2007: 145 (Oman and South Africa); Richmond 2011[5]: 280 (East Africa).
Material
Persian Gulf: photograph of one individual, Dahwat ad Daffi, Jubail, Saudi Arabia, April 1992, F Krupp; photographs of numerous individuals, 2000-2011, GT Smith; photos of several individuals, Qaruh Island, Kuwait, 2008-2011, M Nithyandanan. – Gulf of Oman: photos of two individuals, Muscat, Oman, 01-12 April 2009, S Kahlbrock; photographs of one individual less than 10 mm, Inchcape 2 (a ship wreck), 20 m depth, 08 January 2010, GT Smith; two individuals, approx. 15 mm, Sharm Rock, 09 January 2010, GT Smith. – Mayotte and La Réunion: photographs of numerous individuals http://seaslugs.free.fr/nudibranche/a_intro.htm.
Description
Easily recognised, not to be confused with any other species found in the western Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Large and fleshy with raised, medium-sized bright orange pustules, deep purple rings around rhinophores and gills joined by broken line in the Dahwat ad Daffi individual and the majority of photographs of individuals from the Persian Gulf (Plate 34). In the Gulf, the purple rings are not perfect as in the Red Sea, presenting with gaps, dots, dashes, and extra markings (Plate 35). Mantle margin is of the same purple pigment, foot without purple margin but does have few orange spots on its upper surface; rhinophores and gills purple.
Distribution
Chromodoris annulata is known from the Red Sea (Yonow 2008[6]) and the east African coastline to South Africa, and is recorded from the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, La Réunion, and Mayotte for the first time.
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
- ↑ Edmunds M (1971) Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Tanzania (Suborder: Doridacea). (III). Journal Linnean Society (Zoology) 50: 339-396. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1971.tb00767.x
- ↑ Rudman W (1973a) Chromodorid opisthobranch Mollusca from the Indo-West Pacific. Journal Linnean Society (Zoology) 52 (3): 175-199. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1973.tb01880.x
- ↑ Gosliner T (1987) Nudibranchs of Southern Africa. A guide to Opisthobranch molluscs of Southern Africa. EJ Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, 136 pp.
- ↑ Yonow N (1989) Red Sea Opisthobranchia. 2.The family Chromodorididae (Mollusca, Nudibranchia). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 10: 290-309.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Yonow N (2008) Sea Slugs of the Red Sea. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 304 pp.
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