Taringa telopia Er. Marcus, 1955

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 : 15-16

30. Taringa telopia Er. Marcus, 1955 ( Fig. 3O )

Material examined: Praia de Areia Preta, Natal, 22. VI.2009, one specimen, 18 mm (body length), leg. F. Santos ( MZSP 97071).

Description: Body flat, elliptical, yellowish notum with dark brown, small spots from the medial portion of the body to the margins of the notum. Rhinophores with whitish bases and light brown lamellae.Gills light brown. Head with eyes covered by edge of the mantle, bilobated labium. Lamellate retractile rhinophores.Body with small tubercles medially. Six folliculated, retractile, tripinnated gill leaves around the anus. Foot narrower than notum.

Geographic distribution: Western Atlantic: Colombia, Brazil (Alagoas, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte – present study, São Paulo) ( Bergh, 1894; Er. Marcus, 1955; Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967a; Valdés & Gosliner, 2001; García et al., 2008; Padula et al., 2012; Alvim & Pimenta, 2013).

Family Dorididae Rafinesque, 1815

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).