Favorinus tsuruganus Baba & Abe, 1964

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 : 113

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8D06174D-B19F-4B5C-B9B0-DA74E6D43C75

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6026429

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EB87A2-FFA0-FFF4-9790-FEF3FD6DFCD2

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Plazi

scientific name

Favorinus tsuruganus Baba & Abe, 1964
status

 

Favorinus tsuruganus Baba & Abe, 1964 View in CoL

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Material examined. Four specimens. MB28-004740, ZA 51, 26 Sep. 2013, 10m, 15mm; MB28-004857, POA, 11 May 2014, 40m, 4mm; MHN-YT1172 & MB28-0 0 4821, POA, 0 7 May 2014, 15m, 6mm and 7mm, respectively.

Habitats. Subtropical rocky reefs.

Occurrences. Ponta do Ouro and Zavora.

Geographic distribution. Indo-west Pacific. New Zealand (Gosliner et al. 2008), Japan ( Baba & Abe 1964), Australia ( Willan 1983), Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Red Sea, Réunion Island (Gosliner et al. 2008) and Mozambique.

Remarks. Specimen MB28-004740 was found feeding on white nudibranch spawn, while MB28-004857 was feeding on the spawn of Hexabranchus sanguineus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Nudibranchia

Family

Facelinidae

Genus

Favorinus

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