Goniobranchus pseudodecorus
| Goniobranchus pseudodecorus | |
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| Goniobranchus pseudodecorus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Nudibranchia |
| Family: | Chromodorididae |
| Genus: | Goniobranchus |
| Species: | G. pseudodecorus |
| Binomial name | |
| Goniobranchus pseudodecorus | |
Goniobranchus pseudodecorus is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Chromodorididae.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species was described from Hotel Zabargad, 120 km south of Marsa Alam, Egypt with additional material from Hurghada, Eilat and Quseir, Egypt and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.[1] It was reported by Eliot (1908)[3] from Khor Dongola in the Sudanese Red Sea as a pale variety of Chromodoris maculosa.[1]
Description
[edit]Goniobranchus pseudodecorus has a translucent white or pale orange mantle with longitudinal, irregular opaque white lines and striations. Between these lines are small round magenta spots. There is an opaque white area towards the edge of the mantle which is more extensive at the head and behind the gill. At the edge of the mantle there is an orange band with regularly spaced white breaks or spots. The rhinophores and gill leaflets are translucent with some orange and some white markings.[1][4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Yonow N. (2018). Red Sea Opisthobranchia 5: new species and new records of chromodorids from the Red Sea (Heterobranchia, Nudibranchia, Chromodorididae). ZooKeys. 770: 9-42, page 13, pl. 1 fig. 4
- ↑ MolluscaBase (2018). Goniobranchus pseudodecorus Yonow, 2018. Accessed on 2019-01-08.
- ↑ Eliot CNE (1908) Reports on the marine biology of the Sudanese Red Sea XI. Notes on a collection of nudibranchs from the Red Sea. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 31: 86–122.
- ↑ Yonow N., 2008. Red Sea Sea Slugs. Pensoft Publications, Sofia/Moscow, 304 pp., page 186, as Chromodoris sp.