Felimare picta
| Felimare picta | |
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| Felimare picta at a depth of 17 meters | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia |
| Superfamily: | Doridoidea |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Felimare Rudman, 1987 |
| Species: | F. picta |
| Binomial name | |
| Felimare picta (Schultz in Philippi, 1836)[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Felimare picta is a species of colorful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[2]
Subspecies
The subspecies of Felimare picta have yet to be renamed:
- Felimare (Hypselodoris) picta lajensis Troncoso, Garcia & Urgorri, 1998[3]
- Felimare (Hypselodoris) picta picta (Schultz in Philippi, 1836)
- Felimare (Hypselodoris) picta tema (Edmunds, 1981)
- Felimare (Hypselodoris) picta verdensis Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1966[3]
- Felimare (Hypselodoris) webbi (d'Orbigny, 1839)
- Felimare (Hypselodoris) azorica Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996 has become a synonym of Felimare azorica (Ortea, Valdés & García-Gómez, 1996)
Felimare picta at Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, Savannah, Georgia
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A close up of the gills of Felimare picta
Distribution
Felimare picta lives in rocky seabeds throughout the Mediterranean Sea (Greece), European waters (Spain, Portugal), the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean (Azores) and the Gulf of Mexico.[4]
Type locality of Felimare picta is Palermo, Sicily.[1]
Description
This nudibranch grows to about 20 cm (8 inches) long and feeds on various sponges.[4]
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.[5] Maximum recorded depth is 55 m.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Philippi R. A. (1836). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. Schropp, Berlin [Berolini] xiv + 267 p., pl. 1-12. page 105.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bouchet, P. (2012). Felimare picta. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597522 on 2012-05-14
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gofas, S. (2009). Hypselodoris picta (Schultz in Philippi, 1836). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139154 on 2010-09-11
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wright, M.; Sparrow, Giles (2003). Expert Guide: Marine Life From Tropical Reef Fist to Mighty Sharks. Brown Books Ltd. p. 68. ISBN 1-897884-90-7.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
- Ortea, J., Valdés, A. & and García-Gómez, J.C. (1996) 'Revisión de las especies atlánticas de la familia Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) de grupo cromático azul. [Review of the Atlantic species of the family Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) of the blue chromatic group.]' Avicennia, 1996, Suppl. 1: 1-165.
- Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. page(s): 127
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
- Debelius, H. & Kuiter, R.H. (2007) Nudibranchs of the world. ConchBooks, Frankfurt, 360 pp. ISBN 978-3-939767-06-0 page(s): 113
- Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
- Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012) Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs. PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479
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