Berthellina quadridens

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Berthellina quadridens
Berthellina quadridens.png
Dorsal view of Berthellina quadridens
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pleurobranchida
Family: Pleurobranchidae
Genus: Berthellina
Species:
B. quadridens
Binomial name
Berthellina quadridens
(Mörch, 1863)[1]
Synonyms[2]

Berthella quadridens Mörch, 1863

Berthellina quadridens is a species of sea slug, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pleurobranchidae.

Distribution[]

Distribution of Berthellina quadridens includes Mexico, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Aruba, Curaçao, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Sint Maarten, St. Lucia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil.[3]

The type locality is Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.[1]

Description[]

Body is oval, inflated.[3] Dorsum is smooth covering the internal shell, which is located over the anterior portion of the viscera.[3] Anterior end of the body is with a large oral veil.[3] Rhinophores are rolled emerging between the veil and the dorsum.[3] Color is yellow to orange, semi-translucent.[3] It is up to 25 mm long.[3] Welch (2010) listed that the maximum recorded length is 80 mm.[4][clarification needed]

Ecology[]

Corals Orbicella faveolata are possible prey of Berthellina quadridens.[3]

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.[4] Maximum recorded depth is 50 m.[4]

It possibly feeds on sponges and likely on the corals Orbicella faveolata and Orbicella annularis as well as on anemones.[3]

References[]

This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) text from the reference[3]

  1. ^ a b (in Latin and French) Mörch O. A. L. (1863). "Contributions a la Faune malacologique des Antilles danoises". 11: 21-43. page 29-30.
  2. ^ Bouchet P. (2015). "Berthellina quadridens (Mörch, 1863)". In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420584 on 2016-10-22
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j 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
  4. ^ a b c 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.

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