Phyllidia varicosa Lamarck, 1801

Mehrotra, Rahul, A. Caballer Gutierrez, Manuel, M. Scott, Chad, Arnold, Spencer, Monchanin, Coline, Viyakarn, Voranop & Chavanich, Suchana, 2021, An updated inventory of sea slugs from Koh Tao, Thailand, with notes on their ecology and a dramatic biodiversity increase for Thai waters, ZooKeys 1042, pp. 73-188 : 73

Phyllidia varicosa Lamarck, 1801 Figure 15B

Material examined.

One specimen 32 mm, HWB; one specimen 55 mm, SR.

Ecology.

Abundant in coral reef habitats. Depth 3-30 m.

Distribution.

Widespread in the Indo-Pacific including the Red Sea ( Yonow 1996), South Africa ( Gosliner 1987), Tanzania ( Edmunds 1971), Mozambique ( Tibiriçá et al. 2017), Madagascar ( Risbec 1928), Socotra, Kenya, Mauritius, Zanzibar, Seychelles, Maldives ( Yonow 2012),Chagos Islands ( Yonow et al. 2002), Sri Lanka, Hawaii ( Debelius 1996), India ( Apte 2009), Myanmar ( Sanpanich and Duangdee 2019), Philippines, Vietnam ( Brunckhorst 1993), Indonesia ( Yonow 2011), Australia ( Nimbs and Smith 2016), Palau, Japan, Papua New Guinea ( Gosliner et al. 2008), and known from both Andaman and Gulf waters of Thailand ( Brunckhorst 1993; Chavanich et al. 2013).

Figures

Figure 15. A Phyllidia picta specimens 28 mm B Phyllidia varicosa 55 mm (photograph by Pau Urgell Plaza) C Phyllidiella nigra 50 mm D Phyllidiella cf. pustulosa 35 mm E Phyllidiopsis loricata 28 mm F Gymnodoris cf. alba 25 mm (photograph by Tine Kvamme) G Gymnodoris ceylonica 35 mm H Gymnodoris impudica 60 mm I Gymnodoris inornata 28 mm (photograph by Pau Urgell Plaza) J Gymnodoris sp. 1 25 mm (photograph by Pim Bontenbal) K, L Gymnodoris sp. 2 14 mm, same specimen feeding on Dendrodoris elongata.