Elysia mercieri (Pruvot-Fol, 1930)

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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1042.64474

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9CF986D8-6A47-4E17-9A67-245C78FB8AFD

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/234A888B-B6A0-520C-A10B-7EC4F9C5A77F

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Elysia mercieri (Pruvot-Fol, 1930)
status

 

* Elysia mercieri (Pruvot-Fol, 1930) View in CoL Figure 4K View Figure 4

Material examined.

One specimen 12 mm, SO.

Ecology.

Found upon concrete artificial reefs in soft sediment habitats that formed part of coral restoration efforts. Depth 11-14 m.

Distribution.

Across the Indo-Pacific including the Red Sea ( Yonow 2015), Indonesia ( Eisenbarth et al. 2018), Japan ( Trowbridge et al. 2011), Mariana Islands ( Carlson and Hoff 2003), Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Guam ( Gosliner et al. 2008). Here representing a first record for Thai waters.

Remarks.

Elysia mercieri is known to be predated upon by the nudibranch Gymnodoris okinawae Baba, 1936 ( Nakano and Hirose 2011).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Squamata

Family

Plakobranchidae

Genus

Elysia