Nembrotha guttata (Yonow, Nathalie 2012)
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Ordo: Nudibranchia
Familia: Polyceridae
Genus: Nembrotha
Name
Nembrotha guttata Yonow, 1994 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Nembrotha guttata Yonow, Nathalie, 2012, ZooKeys 197: 1-1.
Description
Description. Easily recognised by velvety black body, large orange pustules edged with green especially along frontal margin, black and orange rhinophores, and green gills. The differences between Nembrotha guttata and Nembrotha cristata Bergh are clearly visible in Plate 21. Nembrotha cristata has been previously recorded from the Indian Ocean, but only in the Maldives (Yonow 1994). A third black and pustulose species known from the region is Nembrotha kubaryana, recorded from Mauritius (Yonow and Hayward 1991): it has green pustules but orange gills and rhinophores.
Distribution
Distribution. Nembrotha guttata appears to be endemic to the Maldive islands; paler and consistently differently coloured species are recorded from the Philippines (Pola et al. 2008), Indonesia, Australia, Japan (Gosliner et al. 2008) and New Caledonia (Herve 2010) but need further investigation. Colour patterns appear to be the best physical characters differentiating species of Nembrotha, and the brownish-red spotted pattern with white gills and white pigment between and on the rhinophores currently included in Nembrotha guttata is consistent in pattern and colour; it occurs only in the western Pacific Ocean and is most probably a distinct species.
Taxon Treatment
- Yonow, Nathalie; 2012: Opisthobranchs from the western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species and ten new records (Mollusca, Gastropoda) ZooKeys, 197: 1-1. doi
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