Trapania bajamarensis

Trapania benni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Onchidoridoidea
Family: Goniodorididae
Genus: Trapania
Species: T. bajamarensis
Binomial name
Trapania bajamarensis
Moro & Ortea, 2015[1]

Trapania bajamarensis is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Goniodorididae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from the intertidal region at Bajamar, La Laguna Tenerife with additional specimens from Tenerife and Lanzarote.[1] It was previously reported as Trapania luquei, a species from the Cape Verde Islands.[3]

Description

This goniodorid nudibranch is translucent white with an irregular pattern of pale brown forming patches on the body. There are yellow spots on the head, the body, the tail and on the rhinophores and gills. There is white opaque pigment on the head and tail and on the appendages.[1]

Ecology

Trapania bajamarensis probably feeds on Entoprocta, which often grow on sponges and other living substrata.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Moro, L. & Ortea, J.A., (2015). Nuevos taxones de babosas marinas de las islas Canarias y de Cabo Verde (Mollusca: Heterobranchia). Vieraea 43, 21-86
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Trapania bajamarensis Moro & Ortea, 2015. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-11-08
  3. Moro, L., J. Ortea & J. J. Bacallado (1997). Primera cita de Trapania luquei Ortea, 1989 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) para las islas Canarias. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias, 9: 119-123.
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