Phyllidia varicosa
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Familia: Phyllidiidae
Genus: Phyllidia
Name
Phyllidia varicosa Lamarck, 1801 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Phyllidia varicosa. – Edmunds 1971[1]: 388, fig. 23 (Tanzania); Edmunds, 1972: 75 (Seychelles); Rao et al. 1974: 119, fig. 2a, b (Laccadive Islands); Fahrner and Schrödl 2000[2]: 164, figs. 1-4 (Red Sea and Indonesia); Apte 2009[3]: 171, fig. 2s (Laccadive Islands); Richmond 2011[4]: 282 (East Africa); Yogesh Kumar et al. 2011[5]: 111, fig. 3c (India).
- Phyllidia arabica Ehrenberg. – Yonow 1996[6]: 495, figs. 7A-F, 8A-C, tab. 2 and references therein (Indian Ocean).
- non Phyllidia varicosa. – Gosliner 1987[7]: 90, fig. 152 (South Africa) (= Phyllidia coelestis Bergh).
Material
Socotra: two pres. specimens 65 × 31 mm and 42 × 12 mm curled, (St. 064, SAM1), Quatub Bay, 18 March 1999, leg. S Al-Moghrabi; single pres. specimen 48 × 18 mm (St. 063, GR-57), 12°38.945'N, 53°56.028'E, off Quatub fishing village, in front of airport, 18 March 1999, leg. G Reinicke; 33 × 15 mm pres. (St. 068, MAP-138), 12°41.062'N, 54°04.508'E, Hawlaf, off jetty, 19 March 1999, leg. M Apel. – South Africa: three specimens (Natal Museum refs 51894, 5908). – Kenya: 35 × 15 mm and 15 × 8 mm both preserved (completely bleached dorsally and ventrally, notch on foot anteriorly), Turtle Bay, subtidal on rock, July 1969, leg. K Brander (nudibranch XII, TE Thompson collection, NHMUK acc. no. 2364). – Tanzania: photographs of two individuals, 1994, MD Richmond; photographs of four individuals, M’Nazi Bay, Msimbati, near Mtwara, May 1994, IM Horsfall; photographs of several individuals, Mafia Island, shallow water, 12 February 2004 and 06 January 2008, A de Villiers. – Zanzibar: photo of one individual, MD Richmond. – Mauritius: 65 × 32 mm pres. (dissected), MNHN, Paris (no label other than ‘Mauritius’). – La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues, and Mayotte Islands: http://seaslugs.free.fr/nudibranche/a_intro.htm. – Seychelles: 53 × 25 mm pres., Victoria Harbour, 12 May 2005, leg. MD Richmond; photo of one individual, Lilôt, NW Mahé, 1988-1989, P Kemp. – Maldives: numerous individuals documented and/or photographed but not preserved, 8-80 mm, Maldives Expedition, N Yonow (see Yonow 1994, 1996) and 1997-1999 by J Hinterkircher. – Sri Lanka: photos of two individuals (1 adult & 1 very small juvenile), Negombo, N of Colombo, April 1995, RC Anderson; photos of two large individuals, Negombo, N of Colombo, 16 January 2011, S Kahlbrock.
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
- ↑ Fahrner A, Schrödl M (2000) Taxonomic revision of the common Indo-West Pacific nudibranch Phyllidia varicosa Lamarck, 1801. The Veliger 43 (2): 164-171.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Yonow N (1996) Systematic revision of the family Phyllidiidae in the Indian Ocean Province: Part 1 (Opisthobranchia: Nudibranchia: Doridoidea). Journal of Conchology 35 (6): 483-516.
- ↑ Gosliner T (1987) Nudibranchs of Southern Africa. A guide to Opisthobranch molluscs of Southern Africa. EJ Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, 136 pp.
