Dolabrifera dolabrifera
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Familia: Aplysiidae
Genus: Dolabrifera
Name
Dolabrifera dolabrifera (Cuvier, 1817) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Dolabrifera dolabrifera. – Bebbington 1974[1]: 78, figs. 7F, 9 (Tanzania, Seychelles (Aldabra), Kenya, Zanzibar); Yonow and Hayward 1991[2]: 6, fig. 5A-C (Mauritius); Yonow 2008[3]: 102 (Red Sea); Apte 2009[4]: 165, fig. 1i (Laccadive Islands); Richmond 2011[5]: 278 (East Africa).
Material
Socotra: 10 mm curled pres. (St-021, MAP-097), rocks with algae, W of Rhiy di-Diblih, Nogid, S coast, 12 March 1999, leg. M Apel. – Maldives: 60 mm approx. (49 mm pres.), in Tridacna culture tank, Marine Research Section, Malé, North Malé Atoll, 30 December 1995, leg. RC Anderson (“mottled olive green; extruded white gelatinous fluid from posterior siphon”); photos only of several individuals, March 1997, March 1998, March 1999, J Hinterkircher. – Mauritius and La Réunion: numerous individuals with various colours and textures http://seaslugs.free.fr/nudibranche/a_intro.htm. – Seychelles: photo of one individual, Lilôt, NW Mahé, 1988-1989, P Kemp.
Description/Distribution
Preserved specimen from the Maldives are relaxed, with rhinophores and tentacles well extended, and a distinct flange present around margin; Socotra specimen very contracted and curled up. Colours of living specimens are extremely variable, and the villi may or may not be present; Dolabrifera dolabrifera can grow to 50 mm in length, and is common in the western Indian Ocean and Red Sea in shallow inter- and sub-tidal coastal waters; it has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution.
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
- ↑ Bebbington A (1974) Aplysiid species from East Africa with notes on the Indian Ocean Aplysiomorpha (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia). Zoological Journal Linnean Society 54: 63-99. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1974.tb00793.x
- ↑ Yonow N, Hayward P (1991) Opisthobranches de l’lle Maurice, avec la description de deux espèces nouvelles (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). Revue française d’aquariologie herpétologie 18 (1): 1-30.
- ↑ Yonow N (2008) Sea Slugs of the Red Sea. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 304 pp.
- ↑ Apte D (2009) Opisthobranch fauna of Lakshadweep Islands, India, with 52 new records to Lakshadweep and 40 new records to India: part 1. Journal Bombay Natural History Society 106 (2): 162-175.
- ↑ 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.
