Tambja morosa
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Familia: Polyceridae
Genus: Tambja
Name
Tambja morosa (Bergh, 1877) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Nembrotha morosa Bergh, 1877: 457 (Philippines).
- Trevelyana morosa Bergh, 1873: pl. 25 fig. 9, pl. 33 fig. 7 (Philippines).
- Tambja kushimotoensis Baba. – Yonow and Hayward 1991[1]:12, figs. 7F, 12D (Mauritius).
- Tambja morosa. – Gosliner 1987[2]: 100, fig. 183 (South Africa); Pola et al. 2006[3]: 493, figs.1A, B, I, fig. 2 (Tanzania + West Pacific).
Material
Mauritius: 22 × 8 × 10 mm, Japan Wreck, 25 m depth, 04 March 1990, leg. H Debelius and (poor) photograph of two mating individuals; photographs of three individuals http://seaslugs.free.fr/nudibranche/a_intro.htm.
Description/Distribution
Preserved specimen translucent but retains blue pigment in creases on tail, gills, and rhinophores. The species was previously recorded from Mauritius by the author, and appears to be an infrequently encountered species in the western Indian Ocean (see NudiPixel[4] for three records from India, Kenya, and Madagascar).
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Gosliner T (1987) Nudibranchs of Southern Africa. A guide to Opisthobranch molluscs of Southern Africa. EJ Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, 136 pp.
- ↑ Pola M, Cervera J, Gosliner T (2006) Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the genus Tambja Burn, 1962 (Mollusca, Nudibranchia, Polyceridae). Zoologica Scripta 35: 491-530. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00241.x
- ↑ NudiPixel website http://www.nudipixel.net/
