Eubranchus conicla
Eubranchus conicla is a species of sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Aeolidida |
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| Species: | E. conicla |
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| Eubranchus conicla (Er. Marcus, 1958)[1] | |
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Capellinia conicla Er. Marcus, 1958 (basionym) | |
Taxonomy
Eubranchus convenientis Ortea & Caballer, 2002 was described from Manzanillo, Limón, Costa Rica.[4] Eubranchus convenientis is considered as a synonym of Eubranchus conicla.[3]
Distribution
This species was described from Ubatuba and Ilhabela, São Paulo state, Brasil.[1] It has been reported from Florida, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Jamaica, Barbados, Tobago, Brazil and Panama.[3]
Description
Body is elongate.[3] Rhinophores are smooth.[3] Oral tentacles are short.[3] Cerata are tuberculate, few in number, arranged in two simple rows.[3] Background color is translucent gray or brown with numerous white dots.[3] Rhinophores and oral tentacles are sometimes ringed with brown.[3] Cerata are white, sometimes with brown or green spots.[3] The maximum recorded body length is 4 mm.[3][5]
Ecology
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.[5] Maximum recorded depth is 3 m.[5] Found on Sargassum in Panama.[3]
References
This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) text from the reference[3]
- Marcus Er. (1958). "On western Atlantic opisthobranchiate gastropods." American Museum Novitates (1906): 1-82.
- Caballer, M.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Eubranchus conicla Er. Marcus, 1958. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-27
- Goodheart J. A., Ellingson R. A., Vital X. G., Galvão Filho H. C., McCarthy J. B., Medrano S. M., Bhave V. J., García-Méndez K., Jiménez L. M., López G. & Hoover C. A. (2016). "Identification guide to the heterobranch sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Bocas del Toro, Panama". Marine Biodiversity Records 9(1): 56. doi:10.1186/s41200-016-0048-z
- Ortea J. & Caballer M. (2002). "Nuevos datos sobre el género Eubranchus Forbes, 1838 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) en aguas templadas del Atlántico Oeste. New data about the genus Eubranchus Forbes, 1838 (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) in warm waters of West Atlantic." Avicennia 15: 77-90 pages: 81, 83, 85, Plate 1 B, Figures 2, 3, 7.
- 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.
External links
- 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.