Chromodoris cf. boucheti Rudman, 1982

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 : 17-18

Chromodoris cf. boucheti Rudman, 1982

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Material examined. Fifteen specimens. MHN-YT1005, VINR, 12 Aug. 2013, 15m, 34mm; MB28-004633, VINR, 12 Aug. 2013, 16m, 38mm; MB28-004632, VINR, 12 Aug. 2013, 16m, 40mm; MB28-004929, VINR, 12 Aug.

2013, 16m, 37mm; MB28-0 0 5051, VINR, 12 Aug. 2013, 16m, 36mm; MB28-005052, 2spcs., NGF, 29 Jun. 2014, 37m, 25 and 32mm; MB28-005053, NHR, 0 1 Jun. 2014, 9m, 20mm; MB28-005054, NSS, 0 2 Jun. 2014, 18m, 42mm; MB28-005055, NFA, 0 3 Jun. 2014, 22m, 34mm; ZMBN105085, 4spcs., VIPP, 15 May 2015, 20- 30m, 20- 32mm, collected by M. Malaquias and Y. Tibiriçá; MHN-YT1551, VIPP, 19 May 2015, 12m, 38mm, collected by M. Malaquias and Y. Tibiriçá; MB28-005056, NGU, 24 Apr. 2016, 22m, 32mm; UL-YT1609, NGU, 29 Apr. 2016, 24m, 31mm.

Habitats. Tropical coral reefs.

Occurrences. Nuarro and Vamizi Island.

Geographic distribution. Indo-west, central Pacific. French Polynesia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands (Gosliner et al. 2008), Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Australia ( Rudman 1982), New Caledonia, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Maldives, Comoro Islands, South Africa, Madagascar (Gosliner et al. 2008), Tanzania ( Debelius 1996) and Mozambique.

Remarks. Chromodoris boucheti is the accepted name for this species in the Indian Ocean. However, our preliminary analyses of the COI region showed genetic distance (p -distance) of only 0.5% between sequences of specimens of C. lochi Rudman, 1982 from the Pacific Ocean retrived from Genbank and specimens of C. boucheti from this study, suggesting that they might belong to the same species.

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FIGURE 4. A, Chromodoris aspera (MB28-004952). B,Chromodoris africana (MB28-004554). C, Chromodoris cf. boucheti (MB28-004929). D, Chromodoris hamiltoni (MB28-004769). E, Chromodoris mandapamensis (MB28-004931). F, Chromodoris quadricolor (MB28-005040). G, Chromodoris strigata (MB28-004884). H, Chromodoris sp. 1 (MB28-004644). I, Chromodoris sp.2 (MB28-004845).J,Diversidoris crocea (MB28-005024).K–L, Doriprismaticacf. atromarginata(MB28- 004575 and MB28-004908, respectively).