Taringa iemanja Alvim & Pimenta, 2013

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 : 15

29. Taringa iemanja Alvim & Pimenta, 2013 ( Fig. 3N )

Material examined: Praia de Baia Formosa, Baia Formosa, 05.VII.2009, two specimens, 24-25 mm (body length), leg. F. Santos ( MZSP 97062 ; GEEFAA 337 ) .

Geographic distribution: Western Atlantic: Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte – present study) ( Alvim & Pimenta, 2013).

Description: Body flat,elliptical,dorsally dark brown with oval-shaped, dark brown spot. Ventrally, light brown notum and foot with oval-shaped,small spots. Rhinophores and gills light brown with small, irregular-shaped, dark brown spots. Bilobated labium. Lamellated, retractile rhinophores within a basal projection. Body with smallsized, rounded tubercles medially. Seven folliculated, retractile, tripinnated gill leaves around the anus. Foot smooth, narrower than and covered by the notum.

Remarks: First record from northeastern Brazil.

Figures

Figure 3. Heterobranchsea slugsfrom Rio Grandedo Norte.(A) Phyllaplysiaengeli (6mm – GEEFAA342);(B)Berthela agassizii(11mm –MZSP 97047);(C) Berthella nebula (7 mm– GEEFAA 1307);(D)Berthella vialactea(14mm – GEEFAA 304);(E) Berthellinaignis (10 mm– GEEFAA 335);(F) Cadlina rumia(10mm – GEEFAA311); (G) Felimida clenchi (9 mm – MZSP 97070); (H) Felimare sp. (13 mm – GEEFAA 313); (I) Tyrinna evelinae (18 mm – GEEFAA 1305); (J) Diaulula greeleyi (20 mm – GEEFAA 259a); (K) Discodoris branneri (70 mm – MZSP 97063); (L) Geitodoris pusae (14 mm – GEEFAA 338); (M.1) Sclerodoris prea (33 mm – GEEFAA 1314); (M.2) Sclerodoris prea (35 mm – GEEFAA1314); (N) Taringa iemanja (25 mm – MZSP 97062);(O) Taringa telopia (18 mm – MZSP 97071).