Flabellina marcusorum

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Flabellina marcusorum
Flabellina marcusorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Flabellinoidea
Family: Flabellinidae
Genus: Flabellina
Species: F. marcusorum
Binomial name
Flabellina marcusorum
Gosliner & Kuzirian, 1990[1]
Synonyms
  • Coryphellina rubrolineata auct. non O'Donoghue, 1929
  • Flabellina marcusorum Gosliner & Kuzirian, 1990
  • Flabellina arveloi Ortea & Espinosa, 1998[2]

Flabellina marcusorum, (Spanish common name: Eolidáceo de Marcus)[3] is a species of sea slug, an aolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Flabellinidae.[4]

Description

Flabellina marcusorum grows to a maximum length of 25 - 30 mm and has a mainly translucent pink or orange body colour.[2][3] Elongate rhinophores, foot corners[5] and cerata are tipped with an opaque white (or sometimes opaque yellow), with a broad, purple band beneath. The posterior face of the rhinophores may have up to one hundred papillae.[6] The oral tentacles are elongate and thin, and are longer than the rhinophores.[5]

This species is very similar in colouration to the recently described African species Flabellina arveloi[6]

Distribution

Flabellina marcusorum is know to occur in two disjunct populations in the waters of central and south America: one group on the west coast of central America in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and the other on the east side of the continent in the Caribbean and in the western Atlantic Ocean down to Brazil,[6][2] and as far east as the Galapagos Islands[3]

Habitat

This species is found in shallow waters in the subtidal and intertidal zones at depths of less than 200 metres.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Flabellina marcusorum | eBivalvia". Ebivalvia.lifedesks.org. Retrieved 2012-07-05. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Malacolog 4.1.1: Western Atlantic Mollusk Species Database at The Academy of Natural Sciences". Malacolog.org. Retrieved 2012-07-05. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "CDF Galapagos Species Checklists - Flabellina marcusorum". Checklists.datazone.darwinfoundation.org. Retrieved 2012-07-05. 
  4. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Flabellina marcusorum Gosliner & Kuzirian, 1990". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2012-06-04. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/4d/a1/58/4da1589fe8d1aba2e00263f3672ec9e3.pdf
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Rudman, W.B. "Flabellina marcusorum". The Sea Slug Forum. Retrieved 2012-07-05. 

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