Chromodoris aspersa ( Gould, 1852 )

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 : 17

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.6025772

persistent identifier

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Plazi

scientific name

Chromodoris aspersa ( Gould, 1852 )
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Chromodoris aspersa ( Gould, 1852) View in CoL

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Material examined. Four specimens. MB28-004432, ZA51, 15 Nov. 2011, 4m, 24mm; MB28-004722, ZDRS, 12 Aug. 2013, 32m, 10mm; MHN-YT1276, NHR, 29 May 2014, 10m, 18mm; MB28-0 0 4952, ZA51, 30 Dec. 2014, 12m, 14mm.

Habitats. Subtropical rocky reefs and tropical coral reefs.

Occurrences. Zavora and Nuarro.

Geographic distribution. Indo-west, central Pacific. Hawaii, Japan, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea (Gosliner et al. 2008), Australia ( Debelius 1996), Philippines, Réunion Island, Seychelles (Gosliner et al. 2008) and Mozambique.

Remarks. This species typically has an orange or yellow edge around the mantle ( Kay & Young 1969; Rudman 1983). Rudman (1993) reviewed the anatomy of specimens of C. aspersa with and without the yellow/ orange border and concluded that they all belong to the same species. Nevertheless, this hypothesis has never been tested using molecular techniques, which may clarify the identity of this taxon.

NHR

Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IRST)

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