Haminoea antillarum (d’Orbigny, 1841)

Delgado, Marlon, Freire, Fúlvio Aurélio de Morais, Meirelles, Carlos Augusto Oliveira de, Padula, Vinicius, Bahia, Juliana & Brandão, Simone Nunes, 2022, Sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62, pp. 1-26 : 4-6

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.063

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10814178

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/922D9668-FFF4-8815-FCD8-B78AA3EE6CE7

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Haminoea antillarum (d’Orbigny, 1841)
status

 

02. Haminoea antillarum (d’Orbigny, 1841) View in CoL View at ENA ( Fig. 2B View Figure 2 )

Material examined: Praia de Pirambúzios, Nísia Floresta, 12.IV.2010, one specimen, 2 mm (body length), leg. A. Pires ( GEEFAA 344), 14.IV.2010, two specimens, 2-4 mm (body length), leg. A. Pires ( GEEFAA 256a).

Description: Oblique body, predominantly translucent, light beige coloration. Shell transparent and, on the ventral side, with dark beige tone, dotted with several black circular spots. In the head, there is a one-piece cephalic shield that narrows towards the shell. On dorsal side of the shield there are black eyes very close together, similar to eyes of planarians. Slightly calcified shell, flattened at its apex and rounded at its base, with very wide cavity. The animal not able to retract completely into the shell.

Geographic distribution: Eastern Atlantic, ( Rios, 2009; Rosenberg et al., 2009), zoogeographic provinces: Mauritian, Senegalese and South-Eastern Atlantic ( García & Bertsch, 2009); Western Atlantic: Bahamas, Belize, Bermudas, Bonaire, Cayman Island, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, CuraÇao, Granada, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, Brazil (Alagoas, Ceará, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte – present study, Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo) ( García et al., 2008; Padula et al., 2012; Zamora-Silva & Ortigosa, 2012).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Cephalaspidea

Family

Haminoeidae

Genus

Haminoea

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