Doris kyolis (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967)

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 : 16

31. Doris kyolis (Ev. Marcus & Er. Marcus, 1967) ( Fig. 4A )

Material examined: Praia de Santa Rita, Extremoz, 04.I.2014, one specimen, 6 mm (body length), leg. M. Delgado ( GEEFAA 340 ). Praia de Pirambúzios (mangrove), Nísia Floresta , 13.III.2009, one specimen, 14 mm (body length), leg. V. Padula ( MZSP 96905 ), 11.VII.2009, one specimen, 10 mm (body length), phot. reg. M. Delgado ; Praia de Pitangui, Extremoz , 12.I.2019, two specimens, 7-9 mm (body length), leg. M. Delgado ( GEEFAA 1311 ) .

Description: Body flattened, dark yellow with dark, irregular-shaped spots over the entire notum, two dark spots between rhinophores. Retractile, lamellate rhinophores. Anteriorly, eyes covered by the notum, and cylindric oral tentacles and one sulcus externally. Medially, notum with numerous, rounded tubercles variable in size. Posteriorly, retractile, bipinnated and foliaceous gill leaves around the anus. Foot smooth, narrower than notum, posteriorly elongated forming a rounded, translucent tail.

Geographic distribution: Western Atlantic: Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, Colombia, CuraÇao, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, St. Vicent & the Grenadines, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, Brazil (Ceará, Fernando de Noronha, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte – present study) ( Valdés et al., 2006; García et al., 2008; Galvão-Filho et al., 2015).

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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).