Discodoris branneri MacFarland, 1909

Gutiérrez, Manuel Caballer, Ortea, Jesús, Rivero, Nelsy, Tucker, Gabriela Carias, Malaquias, Manuel António E. & Narciso, Samuel, 2015, The opisthobranch gastropods (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) from Venezuela: an annotated and illustrated inventory of species, Zootaxa 4034 (2), pp. 201-256 : 230

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4034.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6119906
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scientific name	Discodoris branneri MacFarland, 1909
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88. Discodoris branneri MacFarland, 1909 View in CoL

Material examined. BSM, 1 spc., H = 27 mm, NRC. CHC, 1 spc., PNC.

Ecology. Under rocks, on the intertidal. It autotomizes parts of the mantle when disturbed.

Distribution. Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, USA, Venezuela (Valdés et al. 2006).

Remarks. Discodoris evelinae Er. Marcus, 1955 , one of the most cited species in the Caribbean, was included in the list of synonyms of D. branneri by Dayrat (2010).