Eubranchus conicla

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Eubranchus conicla
Eubranchus conicla.png
live Eubranchus conicla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia

clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida
Superfamily:
Fionoidea
Family:
Eubranchidae
Genus:
Eubranchus
Species:
E. conicla
Binomial name
Eubranchus conicla
(Er. Marcus, 1958)[1]
Synonyms[3][4]

Capellinia conicla Er. Marcus, 1958 (basionym)
Eubranchus coniclus (Er. Marcus, 1958) (misspelling)
Eubranchus convenientis Ortea & Caballer, 2002[2]

Eubranchus conicla is a species of sea slug or nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eubranchidae.

Taxonomy[]

Eubranchus convenientis Ortea & Caballer, 2002 was described from Manzanillo, Limón, Costa Rica.[2] Eubranchus convenientis is considered as a synonym of Eubranchus conicla.[4]

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.[4]

Description[]

Body is elongate.[4] Rhinophores are smooth.[4] Oral tentacles are short.[4] Cerata are tuberculate, few in number, arranged in two simple rows.[4] Background color is translucent gray or brown with numerous white dots.[4] Rhinophores and oral tentacles are sometimes ringed with brown.[4] Cerata are white, sometimes with brown or green spots.[4] The maximum recorded body length is 4 mm.[4][5]

Ecology[]

Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.[5] Maximum recorded depth is 3 m.[5] Found on Sargassum in Panama.[4]

References[]

This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) text from the reference[4]

  1. ^ a b Marcus Er. (1958). "On western Atlantic opisthobranchiate gastropods." American Museum Novitates (1906): 1-82.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ Caballer, M.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Eubranchus conicla Er. Marcus, 1958. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2015-12-27
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m 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
  5. ^ 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.

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.
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