Janolus, Bergh, 1884

Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, Zootaxa 4359 (1), pp. 1-133 : 88

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6026217

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EB87A2-FF87-FFD3-9790-FC11FCB0FA8E

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scientific name

Janolus
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Janolus sp. 2

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Material examined. One specimen. MB28-005029, POB, 18m, 18mm.

Habitats. Subtropical rocky reef.

Occurrences. Ponta do Ouro.

Geographic distribution. Western Indian Ocean. Mauritius ( Armin 2010b) and Mozambique.

Remarks. This species appears to be undescribed. It resembles the illustration of the species identified as Janolus toyamensis Baba & Abe, 1970 in Gosliner et al. 2015 (pag. 305, top two photos). However, the specimen examined here and in Gosliner et al. (2015) has a long pointed tail, while the type material of J. toyamensis has a broad rounded foot with no tail crest ( Baba & Abe 1970). Moreover this specimen lacks the dark brown spots on the foot cited in the first description of J. toyamensis and has a subapical blue ring in the cerata and a blue edge on the tail, which is not mentioned by Baba & Abe (1970).

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