Chromodoris, Alder & Hancock, 1855

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 : 20

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.6025788

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EB87A2-FFC3-FF97-9790-FD07FEF8FB53

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Plazi

scientific name

Chromodoris
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Chromodoris View in CoL sp. 1

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Material examined. Six specimens. MB28-004648, ZA51, 0 9 Dec. 2012, 12m, 34mm; MB28-004644, ZDR, 6 Dec. 2012, 32m, 56mm; MB28-004645, ZA51, 0 9 Dec. 2012, 12m, 36mm; MB28-004942, ZA51, 27 Oct. 2014, 13m, 30mm; MB28-004947, ZJS, 13 Dec. 2014, 12m, 32mm; MHN-YT896, PE, 15 Aug. 2013, 0.5m, 34mm.

Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs, rocky reefs and tropical coral reefs.

Occurrences. Ponta do Ouro, Zavora, Paindane and Vamizi Island.

Geographic distribution. Western Indian Ocean. South Africa ( Coleman 2008; Gosliner et al. 2008), Madagascar ( Johnson & Gosliner 2012) and Mozambique.

Remarks. This species has been often misidentified as Chromodoris hamiltoni as they are externally and internally similar. Nevertheless, they differ externally by the presence of orange bands posterior to each rhinophore. Moreover, our preliminary molecular analyses based on mtDNA COI showed a minmum genetic difference of around 6% between this morphotype and a morphotype of Chromodoris hamiltoni as described by Rudman (1977).

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