Berghia creutzbergi Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970 ( Fig. 4G )

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 : 18

37. Berghia creutzbergi Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus, 1970 ( Fig. 4G)

Material examined: Praia de Pitangui, Extremoz, 06. I.2019, one specimen, 13 mm, leg, M. Delgado ( GEEFAA 1306).

Description: Body elongated (13 mm long), gradually slender to the tail, brown with light spots on the dorsal portion and dark brown on the sides. Elongated oral tentacles, brown in the proximal portion with an opaque white tip. Rhinophores papillate with a dark brown base, gradually lightening up to the apex. Cerata cylindrical, short and arranged in 6 rows with 4-5 cerata present from the pericardium to the tail, brown color with whitish patches along them from the base to the apex. Foot translucent with lateral projections on the anterior portion and thinner on the mid-distal portion, with a small whitish translucent tail.

Geographic distribution: Western Atlantic: Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, CuraÇao, Guadeloupe, Panama, USA, Venezuela, Brazil (Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte – present study) ( Padula & Santos, 2006; Valdés et al., 2006; Carmona et al., 2014c).

Figures

Figure 4. Heterobranch sea slugs from Rio Grande do Norte. (A) Doris kyolis (6 mm – GEEFAA 340); (B) Doris sp. (8 mm – GEEFAA 347); (C) Doto chica (5 mm – GEEFAA 315); (D) Doto divae (2 mm – GEEFAA 285); (E) Phidiana lynceus (27 mm – MZSP 97035);(F) Cratena minor (18 mm – GEEFAA 334); (G) Berghia creutzbergi (13 mm – GEEFAA 1306); (H) Berghia rissodominguezi (3 mm – GEEFAA 289); (I) Spurilla braziliana (13 mm – MZSP 97034); (J) Glaucus atlanticus (35 mm – phot. reg.);(K) Cuthonabarbadiana (5 mm – GEEFAA 257).